I believe teaching is about guiding students on their journey of learning. Learning is most effective when it is an active or interactive engagement with the world around us. I believe the primary purpose of teaching is to help students learn abstract ideas and apply them to address real-world problems or issues. Another important goal of teaching is to encourage students to develop critical and analytical thinking and writing skills because social progress supported by the ideas of democracy and justice would not be possible without informed citizens with that capability. Lastly, given the increasingly complex and interconnected global world, the purposes of teaching should include nurturing students’ global and cross-cultural mindsets and interdisciplinary viewpoints.