What It Means to Teach

I do not think that the end result of teaching should be belief inculcation, as that attitude does not foster progress. A teacher should give students the ability to reason things out for themselves; in that sense, I suppose a teacher should be able to give reasons or, preferably, resources to find reasons for many sides of many issues. If teachers give students resources and the ability to reason, it may be that the students eventually develop better reasoned points of view that the teachers had not considered. This promotes both progress and reason, whereas belief-inculcation limits and obstructs those things.