teachable
/ˈtiːtʃəb(ə)l
/adjective
1(Of a person) able to learn by being taught: when we think we have things already figured out, we’re not teachable...
- The field is accessible, the weakness of our currency makes it extremely affordable, the people are teachable, are you available?
- Beautiful Russian girls are extremely teachable: you will not believe how quickly they are able to begin speaking a new language and adapt themselves to the new circumstances.
- She is in very good shape, she's very teachable and listens very well.
2(Of a subject) able to be taught: there are parts of poetry which may not be so easily teachable...
- It is, of course, as teachable a subject as any other practical department of music, and it could hardly be better taught than by Stanford.
- What are the one thousand teachable things that every third grader ought to start learning so she'll know them all before before she graduates from high school?
- Canada had a very British idea that writing is best learned outside the academy, that it's not teachable.
Derivatives
teachability
- Listing the importance of attitude and teachability served as a reminder to students that openness to new ideas and approaches could assist musical progress and was, indeed, an expectation of the teacher.
- The interaction between standards and beliefs in student ability were mediated by the beliefs of teachers in the teachability of students and their own ability to reach students effectively.
- Not even one state, however, satisfies the second criterion, which pertains to the teachability of the standards within the time available to teachers.
teachableness
- According to his preface to the Psalms commentary, Calvin was suddenly converted to teachableness, not to interiority.
- If authority is too rigid on the one hand or teachableness lacking on the other, the result is chaos.
- Search the Scriptures with the teachableness of a little child and thy labour will not be in vain.