Capable young people, who could go into other high-status occupations, are not likely to enter a profession that society perceives as easy to get into …

„Many high-performing education systems have moved from using numerous specialised, low-status colleges of teacher education, with relatively low entrance standards, towards using a relatively smaller number of university-based teacher-education colleges with relatively high entrance standards and higher university status. […] They understand that capable young people, who could go into other high-status occupations, are not likely to enter a profession that society perceives as easy to get into.“
OECD (Hrsg.), Teaching for the Future – Global Engagement, Sustainability and Digital Skills (2023), S. 23.