Teaching, A personnal experience of teaching Options

"When the pupil is ready a teacher appears", this quote has been said so many times that I can't even count
The point is that actually I'm at a point where many persons came to me asking me to be teached in magick
Well personnally I don't mind but why are all these guys so venal? I mean, there is nothing wrong with wanting to get powers
To converse with beings from other dimensions (from spirits to elementals) but It seems that they just do not understand that there is a little bit more behind the works. Am I somekind of a idealist thinking that the main aim for magicians is to search higher truths?
Is this stupid to think that magick is much more about expanding consciousness, that occult powers are onely a side effect that sould not distract from our personnal questing?
I mean I once found a web site where they told me I would be allmighty, it was the soul hunting site and the understandings I found during this periode are so different from what I percieve in most of members of the community as if they thought that magick is just about selling goodies
Sorry if I seem so desperate, I'm certainly not an (IMG:style_emoticons/default/angel.gif) but MAN if I only deserve that kind of pupils, I think I'm gonna change country for real!

I teach the use weaponry. I find magick and weapons are very similar. Most see them are tools of war or self-gain.

I failed at teaching my first student. He learned the motions but he never learned the art and the real power that it held. By the time my next pupil came to me I asked myself, "What do I have that I can that can teach and inspire this student with?" I eagerly taught him, and he learned it well, yet he had no respect for me or the art and abused it.

Now I have something that I do with everyone that wants to learn. I give them a brief lesson then I send them on their way. The next time I see them I ask them what they have learned. If they have learned something on their own then I will tutor them, if not then I won't. If I see anything that makes me mistrust their intentions then I will discontinue their lessons.

Teaching is great for personal growth. I would pick your student carefully. However, choose them on their actions and character, not what they say. Several of my students came to me with power in mind, but were consumed with peace in their hearts before too long.

"When the teacher is ready the student will appear."