How people see Teachers and Teaching

Just the other day, I had the weirdest experience ever. We were all gathered on the dinner table with people coming over and they started asking how everybody was doing, and when it came to me my response was always "Fine". The next question would always be"What are you planning to do?" and here's my "SIN" for saying "I'm Planning to start teaching". And then people would rush to judge and babble about how bad teaching is. As a matter of fact, I was one of those people until recently I started observing those who teach, us and other students as well. Teachers put all their efforts so that their students are doing well. Without the teacher there would be no engineer, no doctor, no banker, no financing agents, no nurses, without the teacher people may be literate, but they would never be educated. This is what makes teaching vital: No world can exist without education, we can relate that to teaching being the first- and only profession- in ancient Rome, Greece, and Europe, moreover, In the Arab world their analogy for teachers are prophets, the highest rank possible for humans; yet, People still manage to put down every teacher they come across. We must always ask ourselves and other people: On what basis are teachers being underestimated?, and what is it that makes other jobs much more appealing?
Maybe it's the system, and maybe it's us, so before we point fingers we must be certain that we are giving teaching as a profession,the huge responsibility that comes with it, and with this responsibility lies our right to be viewed as somebody who matters, and somebody who does make a difference.