Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

book-teaching

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.64 in modern English

Syllables: book-teach-ing
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Teaching from textbooks, rather than by hands-on experience.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"[…] 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."
"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."

Etymology

From book + teaching. Perhaps continuing Old English bōctǣċing.

Origin

Source language: Old English

Word Breakdown

Root: bōctǣċing

Usage

Inflected Forms

book-teachings (plural) bookteaching (alternative)

Phrases

book-learning

Frequently Paired Words

book-learning

Questions

What does book-teaching mean?: Teaching from textbooks, rather than by hands-on experience.
Where does book-teaching come from?: It is traced to Old English.

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