Teach \Teach\ (t[=e]ch), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Taught} (t[add]t); p. pr. & vb. n. {Teaching}.] [OE. techen, imp. taughte, tahte, AS. t[=ae]cean, imp. t[=ae]hte, to show, teach, akin to t[=a]cn token. See {Token}.] 1. To impart the knowledge of; to give intelligence concerning; to impart, as knowledge before unknown, or rules for practice; to inculcate as true or important; to exhibit impressively; as, to teach arithmetic, dancing, music, or the like; to teach morals.
If some men teach wicked things, it must be that others should practice them. --South.
2. To direct, as an instructor; to manage, as a preceptor; to guide the studies of; to instruct; to inform; to conduct through a course of studies; as, to teach a child or a class. ``He taught his disciples.'' --Mark ix. 31.
The village master taught his little school. --Goldsmith.
3. To accustom; to guide; to show; to admonish.
I shall myself to herbs teach you. --Chaucer.
They have taught their tongue to speak lies. --Jer. ix. 5.
Note: This verb is often used with two objects, one of the person, the other of the thing; as, he taught me Latin grammar. In the passive construction, either of these objects may be retained in the objective case, while the other becomes the subject; as, I was taught Latin grammar by him; Latin grammar was taught me by him.
Syn: To instruct; inform; inculcate; tell; guide; counsel; admonish. See the Note under {Learn}.
Teach \Teach\, v. i. To give instruction; to follow the business, or to perform the duties, of a preceptor.
And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach. --Chaucer.
The priests thereof teach for hire. --Micah iii. 11.
Benson landed at the university after he struck a deal to teach film making if he could make a film at the school.
We teach people to drive well, and to observe speed limits, but that doesn't mean we always obey them.
"Rather than trying to teach customers to buy the cars that we build, we're building cars that the customers want," says Buick General Manager Edward H. Mertz.
The Society of General Internal Medicine's task force on doctor and patient has trained more than 300 medical school faculty members to teach communications skills.
The number of math and science majors preparing to teach jumps 40%.
"Each kid in the section has the same music, then we assign them a certain number of bells and teach them where the notes are located on the staff," he said.
We need more parent volunteers to help teach and coach.
"The media were first of all not to shape the people's comprehensive attitudes, not to teach how to live and how to help living, but to provide a primitive and simplified consolidation of the mono-party Communist rule," Drawicz said.
We don't believe he did it intentionally, but he did it and he's wrong." The graffiti tribute was praised by 10-year-old John Zambrano, who said Morales used to teach him and his friends how to play handball behind the school.
He plans to teach at the school in some capacity after the Nov. 8 election.
Secretary of Education William J. Bennett said Democratic leaders are embarrassed by efforts to teach schoolchildren values and the pledge of allegiance.
Few English-language majors teach in the public schools because they can earn three times the national average salary by giving private lessons or using their language skills in business, Mrs. Tarasiewicz said.
They teach in small groups and their fees are high.
There were, however, students, and Escalante began to teach them calculus.
They did indeed teach `the great end and real business of living"' _ a phrase from the constitution of the school founded in 1778.
Prison officials say they need to use inmates to teach the dogs to track prison escapees.
The program is used to teach people how to use financial spreadsheet programs, said Neil Shapiro, a lawyer for Lucasfilm.
People also clustered around Magnus Communications Design Inc., a Vancouver company that produces interactive videos systems to teach students about drugs, alcohol, sex and AIDS.
"There's a legal question in my mind as to whether condoms are permitted on campus or not, given the responsibility of teachers and administrators to teach chastity," President O. Clayton Johnson said.
Declined to review another case in Tennessee in which a federal appeals court held parents do not have a right to teach their children at home when required reading texts offend their religion.
Jacques d'Amboise, who founded the institute in 1976 to teach dancing to schoolboys, wrote this year's story.
Leroy Madden, a chemistry professor for 18 years, says he took early retirement rather than agree to teach Genesis as science.
"Don't talk about politics," Chinese university officials warned several Americans who arrived to teach English.
Mrs. Williams says it is rather the Milwaukee public-school bureaucracy that has "used" her constituents' money to build an educational empire that fails to teach basic skills.
But he still will perform and teach.
"Theology and philosophy teach you to look for the broad principles behind things," he said.
A six-member team will leave for Moscow next month to teach Soviet police how to deal with such antisocial phenomena as bank holdups, restaurant arson, mugging and auto chop shops.
Parents, of course, teach mostly by example.
"If we teach the principles of nonviolent social change to the kids from kindergarten, what do we do when they stage a walkout?" one educator asked.
"The thesis I teach in class is that all of us want just a little more space in life; we want what we paid for," Mr. Abel says.