There seems to be an ever-growing list of people offering to “teach” you things – Masterclass, Skillshare, and dozens of other learning platforms offer a space for online learning.
Of course, those people aren’t actually teaching. They are performing a public game of “Know and Tell.” It’s simple: they know something, and they tell it to you. But this is not teaching.
Teaching is looking into the eyes of someone seeking understanding. It’s finding the logical leap they are failing to grasp, and finding a new way of explaining it. It’s pushing a student down the road, or dragging them if the need arises. It’s hurrying up on the easy stuff, and slowing down on the hard stuff. (Not hard universally; hard for a particular student or class.)
Teaching is doing what it takes for particular person to go from not understanding to understanding.
There is value in lecture. There is value in sharing your skill in an archivable, repeatable way. But it isn’t teaching, not that way I think of it. Not the way that teaching is practiced by the master teachers I know and respect.