To Educate or To Teach?

People define the words educate and teach differently. The people doing the job is called educator or teacher. Educator seems better since the person not only teaches but also has other responsibilities or roles such as providing moral values in the lessons, make students have positive attitude, knowing students’ condition, discovering the superiority of students, observing them carefully, and many more. The definition is broader than the definition of teacher. I refer the definition to other cases, actually. A teacher is defined as the one teaching and doing things relating to transferring knowledge. Some like being called an educator. What makes them different? The definition of the term or the real work?

Are you a teacher or an educator? I still remember that my teachers ever talked about this. They said that they weren’t teachers but educators. They also showed the reasons of this matter. Others have got cool terms to refer teachers or educators like a chaos coordinator, educational rock star, and other terms related. This will be doubtful for people working like a teacher or an educator in non-formal school. They have got the same portion to help students, but they aren’t called those two terms discussed.  However, they focusing what they do for young generations or those who need helps in education and don’t care of these terms.

The works of teachers/educators actually are differentiated by what they do; not by what the terms mean. It affects nothing when people are called educators, but their ways of working aren't based on the roles of educators. They are called in the level of the term. They don’t put their soul and life in working. The most important is not about debating which terms are used to name them, but this is about ethos of running this kind of job.

They can be with any terms: educators, facilitators, teachers, tutors, trainers, educational rock star, hero without cape, etc, but efforts or attempts they make are the keys. What makes them different is not about the term or the way people call them, but it is about sincerely working and preparing the future.