Seriously, I think I know why music teachers are often like this, and it's the same reason PE class sucks, and I think it's important to talk about.
If you are a musician, and you really really really love music, and you want to base your life around it ... there are very few careers that will allow you to do that. Your chances of being a professional musician who successfully builds a life-long career at it are very small.
but there's always a demand for music teachers.
In the same way, if you are a very athletic, sporty person, and you really really love playing sports and working out, and you want to base your life around it ... there are very few careers that will allow you to do that. Your chances of being a professional player who successfully builds a life-long career at it are very small.
but there's always a demand for sports teachers.
so you end up with a lot of people in those careers who don't want to be teaching, they want to be doing the thing themselves. Music/Sports was always easy and joyful for them, so they have no real empathy for people who struggle, and they often don't know how to explain it to people it doesn't come naturally to. And they get bored and frustrated. And sometimes they take it out on their students. They end up being terrible at teaching and take students who were meh about Their Beloved Subject and turn them into people who hate Their Beloved Subject.
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