Hardest personal lesson learned?

[marshall]

The hardest personal lesson I learned this season...

I've never wanted to be a teacher. Both of my parents were teachers. They weren't miserable and both enjoyed what they did but I never wanted to be a teacher. I still don't want to be a teacher. To be clear, I have tons of respect for teachers and I think the world of anyone who gives up what they do. I just don't want to be one.

This was the year I learned that I am one. It turns out mentors are teachers. Oops.

What's more aggravating to me is that this is the year that I finally learned what I want to teach my students. I don't actually want to teach them about science or math. I don't care if they learn engineering skills from me. I learned this year that the thing I want to teach is almost impossible to teach someone. I want my students to learn passion. I want them to care so much about what they are doing that they infect other people with it... be that FRC or anything else.

So yeah... that's been an eye-opener for me this year.