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teachable

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teach·a·ble  (tch-bl)
adj.
1. That can be taught: teachable skills.
2. Able and willing to learn: teachable youngsters.
teacha·bili·ty, teacha·ble·ness n.
teacha·bly adv.
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Adj.1.teachable - ready and willing to be taught; "docile pupils eager for instruction"; "teachable youngsters"
docile
manipulable, tractable - easily managed (controlled or taught or molded); "tractable young minds"; "the natives...being...of an intelligent tractable disposition"- Samuel Butler
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Upon the assumption just made, then, virtue is teachable.
Meno by Plato View in context
Then, my pupils being older, would be more rational, more teachable, and less troublesome than the last; they would be less confined to the schoolroom, and not require that constant labour and incessant watching; and, finally, bright visions mingled with my hopes, with which the care of children and the mere duties of a governess had little or nothing to do.
Agnes Grey by Bronte, Anne View in context
He asked, "What methods were used to cultivate the minds and bodies of our young nobility, and in what kind of business they commonly spent the first and teachable parts of their lives?
Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan View in context
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