teaching

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

Instruction

Nouns

1. teaching, instruction, edification, education, tuition; tutorship, tutelage; DiRECTion, guidance; preparation, training, upbringing, schooling; outreach; discipline; exercise, drill, practice; learning process; indoctrination, inculcation, inoculation; explanation, interpretation.See school, learning.

2. lesson, catechism; lecture, sermon; apologue, parable; discourse, prelection, preachment; exercise, task; master class.

3. [school]teacher, educator, educationist, [privat]docent, preceptor, trainer, instructor, master, tutor, director, coach, disciplinarian; [full, associate, or assistant] professor, lecturer, reader, prelector, prolocutor; preacher, pastor (see clergy); schoolmaster, dominie, pedagogue, abecedarian; substitute, practice or student teacher, teaching assistant, TA, teaching fellow, teacher's aide, monitor, prefect, proctor; schoolmistress, governess; expositor, interpreter; preceptor, guide, mentor, sherpa, mullah, pundit; adviser (see advice); exponent; pioneer, apostle, missionary, propagandist; faculty, professoriate. Informal, schoolmarm. Slang, teach, scrag.

Verbs

1. teach [a lesson], instruct, edify, school, tutor; cram, prime, coach; enlighten, inform; inculcate, indoctrinate, inoculate, infuse, instill, infiltrate; imbue, impregnate, implant; graft, sow the seeds of, disseminate; give an idea of; put up to, set right, sharpen the wits, broaden one's horizon, open the eyes, bring forward, improve; direct, guide; direct attention to, impress upon the mind or memory; convince (see belief). Informal, beat into [the head].

2. (give a lecture) expound, set forth, develop; interpret, lecture, editorialize, hold forth, preach; sermonize, moralize.

3. train, discipline; bring up, educate, form, ground, prepare, qualify, drill, exercise, practice; nurture, breed, rear, take in hand; break [in]; tame; pre-instruct; initiate, inure, habituate; brainwash (see deception). Informal, show the ropes.

Adjectives — teaching, taught, educational; scholastic, academic, doctrinal; disciplinal, disciplinary; teachable, receptive; instructive, didactic, homiletic; consciousness-raising; professorial, pedagogical, donnish.

Phrases — education doesn't come by bumping your head against the schoolhouse; experience is the best teacher; you can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Quotations — Even while they teach, men learn (Seneca), He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches (G. B. Shaw), A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence ends (Henry Adams).

Antonyms, see learning.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

Syn. pedagogy, instruction, schooling, normal training; see education 1 , 3 .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

education, instruction, training, schooling, tutelage, pedagogy, inculcation, grounding, indoctrination, tuition. ''To cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.''—Jascha Heifetz.

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. The act, process, or art of imparting knowledge and skill: education, instruction, pedagogics, pedagogy, schooling, training, tuition, tutelage, tutoring. See TEACH. 2. A principle taught or advanced for belief, as by a religious or philosophical group: doctrine, dogma, tenet. See BELIEF.