book-teaching

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From book +‎ teaching. Perhaps continuing Old English bōctǣċing.

Noun

book-teaching (countable and uncountable, plural book-teachings)

  1. Teaching from textbooks, rather than by hands-on experience.
    • 1872, Frederick Le Gros CLARK (F.R.S.), Outlines of Surgery and Surgical Pathology:
      […] 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.
    • 1918, The Nature-study Review, volume 14-15:
      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.

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