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. In due course, I learned them. I cannot think the times tables though. Nonetheless, they provide useful solutions to low-level problems, like computing a waiter's gratuity. Teaching, ideally, leads to learning.