Teaching, the profession of those who give instruction, especially in an elementary school or a secondary school or in a university. Measured in terms of its members, teaching is the world’s largest profession, with about 80 million teachers throughout the world.
Teaching - Educating, Mentoring, Facilitating: Broadly speaking, the function of teachers is to help students learn by imparting knowledge to them and by setting up a situation in which students can and will learn effectively.
The combined efforts of educational reformers and teachers’ organizations were required to fashion the beginnings of a profession. Men and women saw themselves becoming committed to a career in teaching and therefore sought to make this career more personally and socially satisfying.
TEACHING meaning: 1 : the job or profession of a teacher; 2 : something that is taught the ideas and beliefs that are taught by a person, religion, etc. usually plural often + of
Pedagogy - Teaching Theories, Educational Psychology: The earliest mental-discipline theories of teaching were based on a premise that the main justification for teaching anything is not for itself but for what it trains—intelligence, attitudes, and values.
Literature, art, the humanities, and sometimes religious teaching are all directly involved, and the teaching of science and mathematics can bring about a positive attitude toward cognitive and theoretical values.
Albert Einstein - Physics, Relativity, Teaching: At first Einstein’s 1905 papers were ignored by the physics community. This began to change after he received the attention of just one physicist, perhaps the most influential physicist of his generation, Max Planck, the founder of the quantum theory.
Philosophy of education - Teaching, Learning, Curriculum: Many problems of educational practice that raise philosophical issues fall under this heading. Which subjects are most worth teaching or learning? What constitutes knowledge of them, and is such knowledge discovered or constructed?
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. He developed the special and general theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.
