Intrinsic motivation and effective teaching

Abstract

There is a great deal of confusion concerning teaching at the university level-Labeling it teaching and those who do it teachers is part of the problem. To teach implies a transfer of information, and that is not the main purpose of higher education. In fact, those who teach in universities are called professors, because their primary function is to profess an intellectual discipline. The most relevant meaning of the act of professing is the Middle English connotation of being bound by a vow or the even older Latin one that refers to one's faith in, or expressing allegiance to, some idea of goal.