Teaching versus Education?

My wife and I have been discussing this vis-a-vis a friend's daughter who recently returned from her mandated charity work overseas (a very private school kind of thing) and spent almost as much on her junior prom as she did on her South American required "good work" for the poor of this world. The argument about doing one's hair professionally, having makeup applied professionally, and doing everything else that her spoiled classmates required told us about a world spinning out of control, in which the wealthy have lost sight of all values, and the not-so-wealthy are caught up in the maelstrom of their angst, and swept along knowing better (for their children).

According to a news report, a certain private school in Washington was recently
faced with a unique problem. A number of 12-year-old girls had begun to use lipstick and would put it on in the bathroom. That was fine, but after they put on their lipstick they would press their lips to the mirror leaving dozens of little lip prints. Every night the maintenance man would remove them and the next day the girls would put them back.

Finally the principal decided that something had to be done. She called all the girls to the bathroom and met them there with the maintenance man.

She explained that all the lip prints were causing a major problem for the maintenance man who had to clean the mirrors every night (you can just imagine the yawns from the little princesses). To demonstrate how difficult it was to clean the mirrors, she asked the maintenance man to show the girls how much effort was required.

He took out a long-handled squeegee, dipped it in the toilet, and cleaned the
mirror with it. Since then, there have been no lip prints on the mirror.

There are teachers.... and then there are educators.

Odd how this misses the boat. What was taught? That kissing themselves and leaving telltale marks thereof was unhygenic? Neither teaching nor educating!