Meaning of book-teaching | Babel Free

Definitions

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

countable, uncountable

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.”

“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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