The Relation of Teaching with other Similar Concepts

• Teaching: as a whole, is aimed to brings changes in the behavior of pupils. These  changes may occur through (i) teaching them how to do or perform a task or act to a situation or stimuli.

•  Conditioning: is lowest level or mode of teaching. A dog may be conditioned (taught)  to lift his paw when it hears a bell. Similarly many of the animals and human beings may be taught to respond to signals, alarms, signs, and warnings through conditioning.

•  Training: is concerned with a little higher level of teaching than conditioning. It helps helps in shaping conduct and teaching various skills. A worker may be trained to perform certain task   requiring very specific skills.

•  Instruction ad Indoctrination: both work on higher footing than conditioning and training as far as the involvement of intellectual  powers and mode of teaching are concerned but does not mean that they can be equated with teaching

•  Instruction: in brief is mainly concerned with the development of knowledge and understanding in a individual about a thing, system or process.