ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with a brief analysis of the relationship between learning and knowledge. Teaching is a process in which human interaction occurs and in which new knowledge and skills are acquired. Since professional education has endeavoured to be associated with the latter, it might suggest that teaching is a method of aiding the learner to acquire the requisite knowledge rather than a combination of knowledge and skills that should play a significant role in the education of recruits to the professions. Within self-directed learning the highest ideals of education may appear and through the learning process the learner may be enriched and developed. Teaching is associated much more with initial education and perhaps adult liberal education than with further and higher education, which might be indicative of the relative status of the former. The facilitator of educational processes may create discussion groups through which learning occurs.
