enlighten vs teach

enlighten

verb
  • To make something clear to (someone); to give knowledge or understanding to. 

  • To supply with light. 

teach

verb
  • To cause (someone) to learn or understand (something). 

  • To pass on knowledge generally, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher. 

  • To pass on knowledge to. 

  • To cause to know the disagreeable consequences of some action. 

noun
  • teacher 

How often have the words enlighten and teach occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )