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Teaching vs Instruction - What's the difference?

teaching | instruction |

As nouns the difference between teaching and instruction

is that teaching is something taught by a religious or philosophical authority while instruction is the act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with information or knowledge.

As a verb teaching

is present participle of lang=en.

teaching

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something taught by a religious or philosophical authority.
  • Many follow the teachings of Confucius.
  • The profession of teaching.
  • Teaching has seen continual changes over the past decades.

    Verb

    (head)
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    instruction

    Noun

  • (lb) The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with information or knowledge.
  • :
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  • *{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
  • , chapter=5, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”}}
  • (lb) An instance of the information or knowledge so furnished.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • *:If my instructions may be your guide.
  • (lb) An order or command.
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  • *:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
  • (lb) A single operation of a processor defined by an instruction set architecture.
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