Chuck said
Teaching people to be aviators is the highest position in aviation that one can aspire to.
Thank you Chuck, for a relevant and interesting post (well, you did start the thread, so it would be , wouldn't it?
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I now want to ask you and other posters what you think of allowing instructing to degenerate into a way of building hours towards a commercial licence. If you feel this is too far from the original thread, why don't we move my question to a new thread? I saw students suffering from hour builders when I was instructing in UK, and hated seeing it. While instructing is a route to the airlines it takes a very strong minded person to focus on the goal of helping a student pilot become an airman. Right now I am learing to instruct on microlights here in France, after not teaching for fifteen years, and one of the joys is that none of my students are learning for any reason other than the pleasure of being in the air. We get to do so much fun stuff, and can take the time to really explore the aeroplane and its capacities.