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!

Bait & switch!
A lot of people don't even know about the spiritual aspects innately connected with magick, (perhaps) thinking of only religious spirituality with all the associated crap, like holy wars & sexist orders, that comes with it. Most people looking for external power are really looking for internal power! What does creating fireballs and talking to spirits mean to them? Maybe proactive protection against threats and communication with individuals outside their local society. Maybe just being able to get your hands warm or gaining knowledge without paying gobs of $.

That you're more concerned with showing people the spiritual side of what you know instead of trying to raise a private army of loyal student minions could easily be a sign of readiness. Imagine if those power hungry would-be pupils who've approached you so far found someone who was more than willing to give them exactly what they appeared to be looking for. Allowing yourself to be taught is a vulnerability, the person taking the role of a teacher is given a great deal of control over the direction through which the student goes. Do you think they'd came to you asking to be taught because they know it all already? Show 'em more than they could ever hoped to learn before meeting you. And if it doesn't work out, you're not the only teacher in the world. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy.gif)