student, factor, teaching profession, incentive, stimulus.

The purpose of the present research was to find out which external and internal considerations and life experience motivate students coming to acquire university education for the teaching profession to major in preschool teaching and how. Data acquisition was based on the method of unstructured interview on a given theme. Evaluation was based on coding. The presented factors are external factors of the ?people? category. Young people were mainly affected in their decision-making by their mother, her professional and private behaviour, by positive stimuli from their grandmothers, aunts and children. The most frequently mentioned human factor was represented by female teachers on different levels of education and from different school types. The discouraging factors included schoolmates. Children and schoolmates were newly identified considerations.