schoolableadj.
/ˈskuːləbl/, U.S. /ˈskuləb(ə)l/ 1. Able to be schooled or trained; capable of learning or developing.rare before 20th cent.
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society > education > learning > learner > qualities of learners > [adjective] > teachable
disciplinablec1454
appliant1483
docile1483
teachable1483
towardly1528
docible1549
schoolable1594
instructable1603
disciplinala1628
instructible1645
educable1834
educationable1852
educatable1868
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [adjective] > tamed or trained > tameable or trainable
trainablec1550
tameable1552
reclaimable1583
schoolable1594
domable1623
domesticable1806
1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits iv. 38 Amongst beasts of one kind, he which is most schooleable [It. disciplinable] and skilfull, is such, because he hath his braine better tempered.
1913 Pedagogical Seminary Dec. 474 The median mentally defective child (schoolable) walks 8 months, and talks 18.6 months later than the median normal child walks and talks.
1951 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 95 425/1 Dr. Rainolds..was not schoolable, and he may have worked off any frustration he felt in the..letter he sent..to Gager.
1994 S. C. Monahan et al. in W. R. Scott et al. Institutional Environments & Organizations iii. xii. 259 Both people and tasks were seen as schoolable, and capable of improvement through training programs.
2.
a. Designating the age range of children normally attending school. Cf. school age n.2 Now somewhat archaic.
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1838 Sessional Papers House of Lords 1837–8 XIV. 97 On the 1st of August 1834 there were certainly at least 3,000 children of apprenticed parents, of a schoolable age, in Bridge Town.
1846 Eng. Rev. 6 138 In 1831 the number of children between the ages of 7 and 14, the approved schoolable period, was 2,043,030.
1869 Echo 15 Mar. 250,000 children of ‘schoolable’ age.
1933 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 25 May 7/1 His prime duty was to see that every child of schoolable age was in school.
1996 E. C. Kaylor Martin Grove Brumbaugh viii. 164 Some three hundred thousand children of schoolable age went untaught for lack of schools.
b. Liable by age to compulsory education; of school age. Now somewhat rare.
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society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [adjective] > of school age
schoolable1845
1845 Mississippi Free Trader & Natchez Gaz. 9 Sept. How many teachers will be wanted to supply the State..will depend in a great measure upon..the dispersion of the ‘schoolable’ children throughout its area.
1871 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 23 Dec. The 809 schoolable children in the township.
1999 J. Wolthuis Lower Techn. Educ. in Netherlands 350 (note) The so-called Lievegoed Committee on education and training of schoolable youth published its report in 1969.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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