I think that teaching is an involuntary function of the brain. I think what your education system doesn't give you is a solid foundation of facts.

In the classical education system which I was educated in, it goes like this.

1. First seven years of education, teach, by rote, facts - world geography. Arithmeticmath, beginnings of three languages, beginnigns of science, history, etc.

2. Next five years. Learn more facts by rote. World history for past 2000 to 3000 years. Science -bilogy, chemistry, physics, math, 3 languages, etc. Start analysiting that information and drawing conclusions.

3. By the time you have 12 years of education, your fact foundation is solid. For the rest of your life, you will be able to compare incoming information with that basis. For exmplae, you learnt from day 1 that one plus one is two. The day that someone tells you that one plus one is three, you don't have to think about it, you know that it is wrong.

4. You learn the scientific method of evaluatiing everythign - check for evidence, and how evidence is determined through measurements and observation.

I was never taught to think. Nor was anyone else. Not my daughter, not my father. Not my friends.

Yet my father was brilliant. I am a thinker. So is my daughter. My sister is not. It's genetic. We are either born thinkers or not.

The best we can do is give everybody a solid education with foundational facts. Once that is in place, all information that comes to us for the rest of our lives is measured against that - instinctively. Provided that information was good, there is no problem with it.