A profession involves intellectual activities and commands a body of specialized knowledge .
Teaching involves intellectual activities when it transmits the cultural heritage to the young.
It also includes a body of specialized knowledge about the nature of the learner, sand the most effective way to deliver instruction. A profession performs specific functions that provides essential personal and social services . Teaching functions to educate individuals in society, thereby providing a very essential personal and social service. A profession rests on theory drawn from basic foundational disciplines that can be applied to practice. Teaching rests on foundational disciplines such as philosophy, history, sociology, psychology, and economics, which serve as the theoretical bases for classroom practices.