book-teaching
nounEtymology From book + teaching. Perhaps continuing Old English bōctǣċing.
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Teaching from textbooks, rather than by hands-on experience.
- […] 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:
- 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:
- Related terms
- book-learning