Explain vs Teach

Is explaining something inherently different than teaching something? I would answer yes.

I believe that explaining is part of teaching, but that teaching is so much more. Explaining deals primarily with the cognitive aspects of the learning experience. What of the social experience, the personal transformational or change experience? There are so many teachers who equate teaching with explaining. If that's all teaching were, we wouldn't need teachers because we have books, the Internet, libraries, museums, etc. But learning is more and we desperately need teachers. We need teachers who thoughtfully push our students to pursue paths of inquiry for themselves. We need teachers who know their students and understand how to help them overcome their learning failures. We need teachers who see their role as a critical factor in the success of the student. We need teachers who are themselves learners and incredibly curious about the world. Teaching is extremely demanding. Teaching is not a secondary profession, it is the profession of professions. Teaching and learning is at the core of every success, innovation, failure, joy, break-through, and progress. Teaching needs to be re-enthroned as a noble profession. Academics and 'research' have killed the spirit of powerful teaching more than they have strengthened it. In the attempt to analyze teaching, teaching has been killed, much like the frogs who are dissected for the purpose of teaching our students about anatomy. For knowing so much about the 'factors' of learning and teaching are we any further along than we were 80 years ago? Not if we equate explaining with teaching...