Why did I become a teacher?

What a difficult question to answer. Why does anyone do anything really?

Woah how profound, why does anyone do anything?(well it wasn't that profound, don't get so concerned)

Teaching. It's the one thing I feel like I'm good at.

I will always have my ability to relate to children and well, teach them something. I've spent the last three weeks away at summer camps trying to learn something from some lecturers and tutors. Most of the people I've encountered have been awe inspiring! Some of them... less than motivating.

Take this one guy for example. We will call him L. He spoke passionately for two sessions about choral music, music education and his beliefs, practices and thoughts surrounding just about everything to do with these topics.

I could only wish to be so:
a) passionate
b) inspiring and;
c) knowledgable

GOSH! The best thing about L is that he doesn't think I'm invisible. I guess that's a plus - haha!

So, why teaching? Is it for an Extraverted Feeling (Fe) or an Introverted Feeling (Fi) result. Well my type: ENFP would tell me that it's in fact going to be close to a Fi just because 'my type says so'. However I've been trying to grasp this concept and one of my good friends who we will call Q is also curious about this 'stuff'. She copied me a conversation which spoke about a prominent figure in history and these people had a discussion on his type of Fe or Fi used. I'm not saying I'm a prominent historical figure however, the article was very useful. (I'm sorry for my lack of control of the English language).

Basically am I fulfilling someone else's dreams or my own. Now that's a horrible meaning to Fe vs Fi however... for me it's the question I'm posed with.

Now, it would be horrible if I said that I was doing teaching to please someone else, because that's the worst reason to do something ever. An equally bad response would be along the lines of the teacher being an educator to fulfil themselves.

So, why teaching?
Ah this is still a really hard question!
Because I had great teachers?
Because I had some crap teachers?
Because I think I can do better?
Because I want to do better?
Because I know I can do better?

Ah, actually I think it's somewhere here that we find the real reason. I know that I can be a good teacher better than some of my crap ones, similar to some of my good ones (however never as good as the best). I am doing teaching because...I want to change lives. I want to share music and I want to know that I've achieved something in my life.

Signing off,

MusoChick