education; tuition; tutorage, tutelage; direction, guidance; opsimathy†.
qualification, preparation; training, schooling &c v.; discipline;
excitation.
drill, practice; book exercise.
persuasion, proselytism, propagandism†, propaganda; indoctrination,
inculcation, inoculation; advise &c 695.
explanation &c (interpretation) 522; lesson, lecture, sermon;
apologue†, parable; discourse, prolection†, preachment; chalk talk;
Chautauqua [U.S.].
exercise, task; curriculum; course, course of study; grammar,
three R's, initiation, A.B.C., &c (beginning) 66.
elementary education, primary education, secondary education,
technical education, college education, collegiate education, military
education, university education, liberal education, classical
education, religious education, denominational education, moral
education, secular education; propaedeutics†, moral tuition.
gymnastics, calisthenics; physical drill, physical education;
sloyd†.
[methods of teaching] phonics; rote, rote memorization, brute
memory; cooperative learning; Montessori method, ungraded classes.
[measuring degree of learning of pupils] test, examination, exam;
final exam, mid-term exam grade [result of measurement of learning],
score, marks; A,B,C,D,E,F; gentleman's C; pass, fail, incomplete.
homework; take-home lesson; exercise for the student; theme,
project.
V. teach, instruct, educate, edify, school, tutor; cram, prime, coach;
enlighten &c (inform) 527.
inculcate, indoctrinate, inoculate, infuse, instill, infix,
ingraft†, infiltrate; imbue, impregnate, implant; graft, sow the seeds
of, disseminate.
given an idea of; put up to, put in the way of; set right.
sharpen the wits, enlarge the mind; give new ideas, open the eyes,
bring forward, teach the young idea how to shoot [Thomson]; improve &c
658.
expound &c (interpret) 522; lecture; read a lesson, give a lesson,
give a lecture, give a sermon, give a discourse; incept†; hold forth,
preach; sermonize, moralize; point a moral.
train, discipline; bring up, bring up to; form, ground, prepare,
qualify; drill, exercise, practice, habituate, familiarize with,
nurture, drynurse†, breed, rear, take in hand; break, break in; tame;
preinstruct†; initiate; inure &c (habituate) 613.
put to nurse, send to school.
direct, guide; direct attention to &c (attention) 457; impress
upon the mind, impress upon the memory; beat into, beat into the head;
convince &c (belief) 484.
[instructional materials] book, workbook, exercise book.
[unnecessary teaching] preach to the wise, teach one's grandmother
to suck eggs, teach granny to suck eggs; preach to the converted.
Adj. teaching &c v.; taught &c v.; educational; scholastic, academic,
doctrinal; disciplinal†; instructive, instructional, didactic;
propaedeutic†, propaedeutical†.
Phr. the schoolmaster abroad; a bovi majori disscit arare minor [Lat.];
adeo in teneris consuecere multum est [Lat.] [Vergil]; docendo discimus
[Lat.]; quaenocent docent [Lat.]; qui docet discit [Lat.]; sermons in
stones and good in everything [As You Like It].