Teachers and students

Even though I am not currently working as a teacher at the moment, but this is certainly one of my favorite activities. The reason for that is that it always made me realize how much people are influenced by those around them, and I wanted to see just how much I could help people.
Notice I'm using help and influence interchangeably. As a teacher, not trying to force my own viewpoints on students is an ethical concern. On the other hand, being able to lend a hand to people (students, if you will) who want it - explicitly or not - is awesome. In my feeble experience as a human being, people choose whose opinion they'll listen to almost unconsciously. On top of that, I'll add that most of what goes into deciding that, is probably related to resonating past experiences, present situations or hopes for the future.
You must have figured out the big picture by now: I don't think a teacher has neither the right to try nor the actual power to enforce his/her own viewpoints and opinions on students, therefore I don't give myself the right to push students around; teachers - and human beings, for that matter - have their own affinities and tend to act accordingly, and so a teacher tends to meet a lot of cool students (again, human beings) and can safely pay less attention to the uncool ones.