Organizations are hierarchical. They have charts that delineate the structure of authority. They are top-down. Communities are unified bodies of individuals, brought together not because of a shared location or a common rubric, but rather because their shared assumptions help define their membership and their purpose. In an earlier piece, I had written that traditionally schools have been teaching organizations rather than learning organizations.
Teaching implies the passing along of information.
Passing information along leads to new people learning, but not to new learning. Learning, at first, seems less passive than being taught, but we learn from someone or something. Thinking, however, is always generative, never receptive. Teaching is presentation. In grade school I was presented with the times tables.