### activity | education:

Teaching
* Most teachings concerned with ethics affirm the non-doing of evil and the cultivation of good.
* are communicating
  - doctrines
  - educational events
* calling that is second only to the work of salvation.
* career that is challenging everyday
  - where they feel they can make a difference in their community
* chance to touch lives and change the future.
* commitment to lifelong learning and rewards.
* complex, people-centered profession.
* craft learned by doing.
* creative act, an organizational activity, and a social contract.
* game where everyone wins that plays fairly.
* human activity that involves the presented of both participants.
* is also the creation of a learning community.
* is an action that emanates from a person, the teacher
  - activity which is best assessed by how learning is accomplished
* is an art that is undergirded by science
  - where teachers are artists
  - incarnation of ideas
  - interaction between people
  - ongoing process of learning and sharing information
  - characterized as a process of conscious decision making
  - facilitation of learning aimed at helping students achieve their educational objectives
  - one of society's most important jobs
* is one of the country's most unionized professions
  - few occupations in which one basically works alone
* is one of the few professions that demands a never-ending desire to educate one's self
  - that permit love
  - ways to change the world
  - something that requires all of the mind and the heart
* is the Ultimate Truth of the world
  - ability to inspire learning
  - achievement of shared meaning
  - acquisition, assimilation, and articulation of knowledge
  - act of sharing knowledge
  - activity that occurs during the time when students are in their chairs
  - art and science of structuring experiences for learning within a caring context
* is the art of assisting discovery
  - being human
  - begining of learning
  - communication of knowledge, while research is the advancement of knowledge
  - distribution of information or skills to others
  - essential profession, the one that makes all other professions possible
  - fulfillment of learning
  - impartation of truth to the mind
  - imparting of knowledge while learning is the gaining of knowledge
* is the most honorable profession in the world
  - important of all endeavors of people
  - noblest of the noble professions
  - occupation that offers immense potential for enriching the lives of others
  - one profession that touches all professions
  - organization of learning
  - passing on of knowledge
* is the process of curing the amnesia into which every generation is born
  - leading someone to learn
  - working with specific students
  - that facilitates students' acquisition and application of new information
* is the profession that creates all others
  - makes all other professsions possible
  - provides the most benefit to society
  - shapes America's future
  - transfer of knowledge
* job that has many rewards
  - is generally made for extroverts
* noble profession that requires perseverance and a love of young people.
* process of creating the best optimal conditions for learning to take place.
* profession focused on human development.
* profession that is both an art and a science
  - requires continuous updating of knowledge
* public profession.
* role played by many kinds of leaders, including consultants and advisors.
* skill, just like music or art.
* social process where human beings come to share experiences and meanings.
* talent that is acquired and takes time.
* tradition that is passed on from one generation to the nest.
* transfer of personality.
* transferring of ownership of skills or concepts.
* way of guiding a child to grow successfully in every way possible.