| Private lessons are a very different world than sitting in a classroom at school. With private lessons the teacher works for you, and should be the source of the information YOU want. They are not necessarily responsible for your motivation, that's your job. In other words, you set the agenda and the pace of the learning.
So assuming you don't have any technical problems that the teacher would judge to be a problem for you, the work you do will be the direction you want to take with your playing. What problems to you see in your playing? What do you want to do with the bass? Where do you see yourself musicially in the near and far future? Are there things you hear in other bass players that you can't figure how them? Once you've got that clear in your mind, start talking to your teacher.
Remember too, that your lesson teacher is selling something: Musical information and technique. If you want to know something and the teacher doesn't know it, fine... go to some other teacher. Or augment your lessons with some skype lessons (more and more of them being offered here on TB it seems) and pick up some special technique.
There's a mountain of great information here on TB. Read as much as you can. Just about every 'sticky' has something worthwhile in it.
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Never confuse beauty with things that put your mind at ease. -Charles E. Ives
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