https://serendip.peckels.com/zats/15visiononteaching/ “Why did I want to become a music teacher and what is important in my relationship with students?” I’ll answer this question from the perspective of someone who has been teaching for 12 years now after a career change. I divide my time between teaching, performing, and studying. First, two closely related factors have driven me to start making music and to explore it. The first motivation could be considered somewhat selfish, but it is counterbalanced by my second driver. I only started playing and practicing late in my teens. Until then, I had always viewed music from the listener’s perspective, and although I felt very passionate about it, I thought its practice aspects were too similar to sports, for which I didn’t have a particular passion. I was completely wrong, of course; music and sports couldn’t be more different. Hugo en-us