schoolkeepingn.
/ˈskuːlˌkiːpɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈskulˌkipɪŋ/ The occupation or profession of running or teaching in a school. Cf. to keep school at school n.1 Phrases 1a, schoolkeeper n. 2.
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society > education > teaching > systematic or formal teaching > [noun] > school-teaching
schoolteaching1585
pedagogy1623
pedagogism1642
schoolkeeping1651
pedagoguing1804
schoolmastering1822
schooling1837
pedagoguery1857
school-marming1881
1651 in D. G. Hill Dedham (Mass.) Rec. (1892) III. 191 The time of covenant in ye schoole keepeing being expired.
1769 True Hist. Scheme for Seminary 21 I believe no good-natured Man, that ever set up School-keeping yet, did not wish to be delivered from the disagreeable Burden of Correction.
1796 Morning Chron. 20 Aug. (advt.) Wanted, a Mistress, who has been in the habit of School-keeping.
1854 C. M. Yonge Castle Builders v. 70 All we have ever had to do with school-keeping, was in that short visit to my sister.
1874 Contemp. Rev. 23 444 Many of the ablest of the English clergy..have to live by literature or schoolkeeping.
1916 E. W. Knight Public School Educ. in N. Carolina vii. 126 We act upon the principle that school-keeping is a business to which scarcely any one but an idiot is incompetent, if he only knows reading, writing, and arithmetic.
1992 B. B. Tye & K. A. Tye Global Educ. ix. 243 Motivation and commitment are difficult for teachers to maintain when confronted with the daily realities of schoolkeeping.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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