book-teaching
book-teaching noun: teaching from textbooks, rather than by hands-on experience.
Noun
book-teaching (countable and uncountable, plural book-teachings)
- Teaching from textbooks, rather than by hands-on experience.
- […] and they are offered to the Student, in the hope that he may be encouraged to fill in the details from actual observation, and thereby cultivate a habit of self-reliance, instead of depending too much on book-teaching in his early studies.1872, Frederick Le Gros CLARK (F.R.S.), Outlines of Surgery and Surgical Pathology
- A teacher who fails in one will fail in the other for the same reasons,—through lack of knowledge of where science impinges upon the child's interests and experience,—and book-teaching rather than teaching with the object itself.1918, The Nature-study Review, volumes 14-15
Forms of book-teaching
| plural | book-teachings |
|---|---|
| alternative form | bookteaching |
Origin of book-teaching
From book + teaching. Perhaps continuing Old English bōctǣċing.
Questions about book-teaching
- What does book-teaching mean?
- Book-teaching means teaching from textbooks, rather than by hands-on experience.
- What part of speech is book-teaching?
- Book-teaching is a noun.
- What is the plural of book-teaching?
- The plural of book-teaching is book-teachings.
Words near book-teaching in the dictionary
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