Book-teaching
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Teaching from textbooks, rather than by hands-on experience. countable, uncountable
"[…] 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."
Example
More examples"[…] 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."
Etymology
From book + teaching. Perhaps continuing Old English bōctǣċing.
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