After 3 years of music ministry, followed by 7 years of music education through choral and wind band instruction, I've made quite a stride in group leadership. All education requires pedagogy, classroom management, and team leadership - but music education is a bit different. Need an objective met, with no second chances, and limited resources? Ask a music teacher. Need someone who can do all that, yet still inspire people to reach beyond their self-determined limitations to discover what they can really do? Ask a music teacher. Now you need someone who can do all the above while still providing the passion needed to push your objective over the finish line? Ask a music teacher. Music Education requires someone to take a skill that is often nonexistent and prepare it to be on display. As if that wasn't challenging enough, the skill they develop doesn't belong to them - it's someone else's. To be a music educator is to be a coach, a leader, a problem-solver, a team player, a counselor, a confidant, a recruiter, but above all to look beyond yourself to inspire others. Need all of that in one person? Ask this music teacher.