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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



... they were gathered, Dallas made Esther observe their various features and family characteristics, and brought her away from Christopher's technical phraseology to introduce her instead to the living and everlasting relations of things. To this teaching the little girl presently lent a very delighted ear, and brought, he could see, a quick wit and a keen power of discrimination. It was one thing to call a delicate little plant arbitrarily Sanguinaria canadensis; it was another thing to find it its place among the ...
— A Red Wallflower • Susan Warner
... towers—the Southern one— Sister Margaret Bourgeoys, that sainted nun, Sat patiently teaching, day after day, How to find to Jesus the blessed way, 'Mid the daughters swarth of the forest dell, Who first from her lips of a God heard tell, And learned the virtues that woman should grace, Whatever might be ...
— The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon (Mrs. R.E. Mullins) • Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
... come for me to take leave, Devayani; I have long sat at your father's feet, but to-day he completed his teaching. Graciously allow me to go back to the land of the ...
— The Fugitive • Rabindranath Tagore
... entered into a very unintelligible explanation of a subject which constitutes, in defiance of common sense and of the plainest teaching of the gospel, the leading dogma of Presbyterianism; namely, foreordination, or the eternal decree of every man's election or reprobation, irrespective of free will, good works, or even the all-saving merits ...
— The Cross and the Shamrock • Hugh Quigley
... teach the men anything new, but are rather a test for the higher officers. But the teacher who only wants to make a show at the examination, and who does not expend all the enthusiasm and inspiration of his calling upon the teaching itself,—I have no use ...
— 'Jena' or 'Sedan'? • Franz Beyerlein


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