The motivation for the choice of teacher’s profession

The text gives the information about the empirical research among applicants for study and students of faculties of education. It is an argument from the research report. This report is the result of the first steps of a longterm research sponsored by the Grant Agency of Czech Republic "What teacher will be?". In this information wc analyze the responses to the questions about the attitudes to teacher’s profession. This attitudes are indicated by three groups of questions: motivation for the study at the university; the timne they have decided about their study at the faculty of education; professional perspectives in the future. We are interested in the differentiation of attitudes and opinions along specialisations and branches of the study.