book-teaching en · NOUN
Etymology
From book + teaching. Perhaps continuing Old English bōctǣċing.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) Teaching from textbooks, rather than by hands-on experience.
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:[…] 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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| bookteaching | alternative | lexicographic | |
| book-teachings | Number=Plur | lexicographic |