What Is Teaching?

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Education is holistic, it includes development of the intellectual,physical ,moral domains .

Education is useful for overall development of any individuals while teaching means
showing the right way of education. Good Education is the outcome of successful teaching.

Education is something that one gets at some point in their life while teaching is on going
process.

Teaching means correct guidance for better education. A person who is well educated may
not be a good teacher. Education is meant to achieve certain goal in life . Education is
something that an individual gets from an outside source while teaching skills comes from
inner self.

Education is what you pour into your students. Education can be

1. Teaching of facts,
2. Teaching discipline,
3. Teaching skills,
4. Teaching moral values and the list goes on.
Education is the content you wish to pour into your students.

Teaching on the other hand is the container through which you pour the content. In other
words, teaching is how you pass on the content to your students.

1. Is it via chalk and talk method,


2. Is it through the use of a teaching aid
3. Is it a live demo
4. Is it via the narration of your experience and so on
In summary, Teaching is the ‘Vehicle of Delivery of Content’ and Education is the ‘Content’

What is teaching?
In much modern usage, the words ‘teaching’ and ‘teacher’ are wrapped up with
schooling and schools. One way of approaching the question ‘What is teaching?’ is to
look at what those called ‘teachers’ do – and then to draw out key qualities or activities
that set them apart from others. The problem is that all sorts of things are bundled
together in job descriptions or roles that may have little to do with what we can sensibly
call teaching.
Another way is to head for dictionaries and search for both the historical meanings of
the term, and how it is used in everyday language. This brings us to definitions like:
Impart knowledge to or instruct (someone) as to how to do something; or
Cause (someone) to learn or understand something by example or experience.
As can be seen from these definitions we can say that we are all teachers in some way at
some time.
Further insight is offered by looking at the ancestries of the words. For example, the
origin of the word ‘teach’ lies in the Old English tæcan meaning ‘show, present, point
out’, which is of Germanic origin; and related to ‘token’, from an Indo-European root
shared by Greek deiknunai ‘show’, deigma ‘sample
(http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/teach)

http://infed.org/mobi/what-is-teaching/

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