Teaching vs. Learning
Teaching
is to educate or train or motivate someone on something, while learning means
to get education or training or motivation. Literally, teaching is to give
lessons to students in a school, college, university, etc. Primarily, teacher
provides required knowledge/skills to children and adults, but, eventually,
teacher actualizes potential possibilities of learners into actual realities
through knowledge dissemination / skill transmission, so that a knowledgeable /
skillful person is inevitable for effective teaching. In addition, teachers
shape thought-patterns and behavior-patterns of learners through multiple
educational practices. Concisely, teaching is to provide knowledge, to build
character, and to enhance wisdom level. Teaching is either formal or informal. The
formal teaching is disciplined and coordinated, while the informal teaching is personal
and atypical. Formal teaching is provided through
educational institutions while informal teaching is common phenomenon of
interactive life. At institutional level, teaching and learning are two distinct
processes – teaching is more akin to leadership and management, on the other
hand, learning is more akin to research and development.
