When teaching Kung Fu, every teacher has to be carefull on the kind of students that we have walk into our schools day by day. No matter what anyone says, their reasons to train kung fu is to do harm. Even if its while you are defending yourself. Every so often, and I know everyone who is a teacher exeperiences this, you get a student who you are not comfortable teaching Kung Fu. Simply because their intentions. Meaning- in class your new student asks questions on fighting wants to throw kicks and punches at you, to see how the system would respond to this move or that move. Which to me shows the intentions of fighting or exploiting the kung fu. Even though we teach "Martial" arts, we have to be careful on who we teach. Most kung fu requires your whole body to act as one. To adapt postures, breathing patterns, footwork, and hand techniques. If you dont have an understanding on these basic principles in your system(as a new student wouldnt),then you dont have the right to ask questions about how certain moves work.
Then there is the student who comes in your school and seems to have no intentions on using the Kung Fu in any type of harmful way. He or She may be intelligent and catch on to fundalmental moves easy, without asking any questions. They wait for your instructions, and will not ask for details but will recieve them upon the teachers giving. In a way you want to see this student move along on the right path, with hard work and close attention. So that they represent the perfect model of a good teacher at a great kung fu school.
But wait, what happens when your golden student is not what you thought he or she to be. They just so happen to be what you expected of your ambitious student, and your assumed, malicious motived student is the one who is the model of your teaching, of your kung fu school.
Just looking for thoughts