Teach vs Lancasterian - What's the difference?

As a proper noun teach

is (slang) nickname for a teacher.

As an adjective lancasterian is

of or pertaining to the monitorial system of instruction followed by (joseph lancaster) (1778–1838), in which the advanced pupils in a school teach the pupils below them.

teach

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) techen, from (etyl) . More at (l).

Verb

To show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct.

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So thus within a whyle as they thus talked the nyghte passed / and the daye shone / and thenne syre launcelot armed hym / and took his hors / and they taught hym to the Abbaye and thyder he rode within the space of two owrys

(label) To pass on knowledge to.

(label) To pass on knowledge, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher.

(label) To cause to learn or understand.

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Rob Dorit

, magazine=(American Scientist), title= Making Life from Scratch , passage=Deep Blue taught' us a great deal about the power of the human mind precisely because it could not reproduce the intuitive and logical leaps of Kasparov’s mind. A truly synthetic cell, built from scratch or even from preexisting components, will be a cell without ancestry, and it, too, will ' teach us a great deal about the underlying complexities of life without actually reproducing them.}}

Synonyms

* (sense) educate, instruct

Antonyms

* (sense) learn

Derived terms

* * teacher * teaching

Etymology 2

(probably clipping)

Noun

(es)

(pejorative) teacher

Anagrams

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lancasterian

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Of or pertaining to the monitorial system of instruction followed by (Joseph Lancaster) (1778–1838), in which the advanced pupils in a school teach the pupils below them.

* 2004 , Paul Seattler, The Evolution of American Educational Technology (page 33)

These semipublic, philanthropic organizations later came to regard the so-called Lancasterian system as ideal, since it offered mass education at low cost.

English eponyms