Color me dumbfounded

I must confess that now I have two conundrums.

My first one had to do with the "business" of education vs the business of "education".

My second one is "education" vs "teaching".

I know there is a distinct difference between the two units of each set. I just can't figure them out.

To set out the first one:

Are only teachers responsible for running the "divisions" of education, including Administration, Business (interesting that a division has that name), Curriculum and Instruction, Facilities, Human Resources, Information and Technology and Student Services and Federal Programs?

Would those be considered the "business" of education?

Could business people run one of these divisions responsibly without being a teacher?

Is what teachers do within the classroom or any specific "arena" within a school setting be considered the business of "education"?

There would be an end result of what the teachers do, taking in to consideration all of the variables inherent within a "teaching" setting. Understandably there are many of these variables that are uncontrolled by the teacher, however in the system that we now know, would the outcomes (what the students learned) be considered what is the business of "education"?



Now to the second set.

Education: the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life


Teacher: a person who teaches or instructs, esp. as a profession; instructor.

Educator: a person or thing that educates, esp. a teacher, principal, or other person involved in planning or directing education



Does an "other person involved in planning or directing education" have to be a teacher? Or said in another way, if you are not a teacher, you cannot be involved in planning or directing education?

Can only teachers educate?

Are there teachers who do not educate?

Is this a true statement: No one who is not a teacher can educate?

Is this a true statement: Every person involved in planning or directing education is a teacher?

Since a "thing" by definition can be an educator, does that challenge the concept that only teachers can be educators?

Who, by definition, could fit the defintion of "other person"? Logically, this would mean that educators can be something other than teachers.

Who decides who these others are?

If teachers only had to teach and educators were only involved in planning or directing education and they both stayed out of each other's space, would that be the optimum educational setting?