Roget's Thesaurus

#537. Teaching

Nouns

teaching etc. v.; instruction; edification; education; tuition; tutorage, tutelage; direction, guidance; opsimathy. qualification, preparation; training, schooling etc. v.; discipline; excitation. drill, practice; book exercise. persuasion, proselytism, propagandism, propaganda; indoctrination, inculcation, inoculation; advise etc. 695. explanation etc. (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., etc. (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.

Verbs

teach, instruct, educate, edify, school, tutor; cram, prime, coach; enlighten etc. (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 etc. 658. expound etc. (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 etc. (habituate) 613. put to nurse, send to school. direct, guide; direct attention to etc. (attention) 457; impress upon the mind, impress upon the memory; beat into, beat into the head; convince etc. (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.

Adjectives

teaching etc. v.; taught etc. v.; educational; scholastic, academic, doctrinal; disciplinal; instructive, instructional, didactic; propaedeutic, propaedeutical.

Phrases

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].