schoolteaching

[ skool-tee-ching ]

noun

1. the profession of a schoolteacher.

Word History and Origins

Origin of schoolteaching¹

An Americanism dating back to 1840–50; school ¹ + teaching

Example Sentences

In giving up schoolteaching and popular lecturing, Galileo really made a virtue of necessity.

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Oh, if in our schoolteaching we could only teach this one thing: a great thirst for knowledge!

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Schoolteaching would be unbearable were it not for meeting ladies.

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Into our schoolteaching go the cheese-paring policies of the average villager.

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Arnold used to say that schoolteaching should not be based upon religion, but it should be religion.

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