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!

Thanks a lot to all of you for the answers
But I disagree with esoterica
Generally TV condemns mis use of magick. So Ok this is basic dichotomy and life is much more complicated then black and white
To Vagrant dreamer I think the best is to give advices, I sugger the truth to those who asck me for it
Actually my recent problem with the last person who came to me was that she wanted to learn onely of knowledge, when I asked the superior instances the insight that came to me was that I've been able to teach myself so I should give here advices and not decide for her
But the point is that I've discovered that she's bipolar, and it seems that the doctors confirm the spirit doctors diagnosis maybe this was the teaching she was supposed to learn to learn to reach an equilibrium between contradictory feelings and states of mind that are basically nothing else but the symptoms of imbalance of the energies
The second one was a much more complicated case but in somesort of way he reminds me of myself, so desperate and wounded
Both of them are really instable and want he REAL FUNKY STUFF,
I mean there is nothing wrong with wanting to deal with archdemons and cast powerful spells but they just don't understand that they should learn to control themselfs and work on their personalities befor