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Teaching   /tˈitʃɪŋ/   Listen
Teaching

noun
1.
The profession of a teacher.  Synonyms: instruction, pedagogy.  "Pedagogy is recognized as an important profession"
2.
A doctrine that is taught.  Synonyms: commandment, precept.  "He believed all the Christian precepts"
3.
The activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill.  Synonyms: didactics, education, educational activity, instruction, pedagogy.  "Our instruction was carefully programmed" , "Good classroom teaching is seldom rewarded"



Teach

verb
(past & past part. taught; pres. part. teaching)
1.
Impart skills or knowledge to.  Synonyms: instruct, learn.  "He instructed me in building a boat"
2.
Accustom gradually to some action or attitude.



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"Teaching" Quotes from Famous Books



... rolling their venerated idols out of their temple, and setting up in their stead an image of the Virgin and Child. When the Indians saw that no terrible consequences followed, they listened to the teaching of the good priest, Father Olmedo, who accompanied the expedition, though it is probable that they did not, after all, understand much of his instruction. After eight days the two ships came back, but with no news ...
— The True Story Book • Andrew Lang

... in a competitive exam. against Goulburn girls? They all have good teachers and give up their time to study. I only have old Harris, and he is the most idiotic old animal alive; besides, I loathe the very thought of teaching. I'd as soon ...
— My Brilliant Career • Miles Franklin

... fit to be married; he knows not what to do, or what step to take; he may indeed have served his time, but he has not learned his trade, nor is he fit to set up; and be the fault in himself for not learning, or in his master for not teaching him, he ought not to set up till he has gotten some skilful person to put him in a way to do it, and make him ...
— The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) • Daniel Defoe

... only a few months old, until he had grown to the full height of a man. He became a very good harper, I suppose, and skilful in the use of weapons and tolerably acquainted with herbs and other doctor's stuff, and above all, an admirable horseman; for, in teaching young people to ride, the good Chiron must have been without a rival among schoolmasters. At length, being now a tall and athletic youth, Jason resolved to seek his fortune in the world without asking Chiron's advice or telling ...
— Myths and Legends of All Nations • Various

... survives, so greatly changed must he be by the hardships and barbarities he has gone through. Compared to his, my own fate has been fortunate, thanks to the generosity of my kind friends in this house, and to others. I have also been able to support myself by teaching, and have even had it in my power to help others of my countrymen who required assistance; but still the picture of my dear husband, in that dreadful slave-ship, is constantly coming before me; and often and often I think of my beloved child, thrown ...
— John Deane of Nottingham - Historic Adventures by Land and Sea • W.H.G. Kingston


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