home teacher
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The columnist is not even a member of Washington's tight Mormon inner circle, though he attends services regularly and serves as "a home teacher," visiting Mormon families regularly for counseling and prayer.
From Time Magazine Archive
The home teacher should organize the women into afternoon classes for learning English and should induce them to visit the evening classes with the men.
From A Stake in the Land by Speek, Peter A. (Peter Alexander)
The home teacher often has no higher aim than that the children should learn it by rote—learn to rattle it off like the multiplication table, or the rules of grammar.
From The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church by Rhodes, M. (Mosheim)
"He who can plant courage in the human soul is the best physician," and this is one of the chief duties of the home teacher.
From Five Lectures on Blindness by Foley, Kate M.
One peasant woman told the writer that this home teacher was a good protector for them, but did not recognize that she was their educator.
From A Stake in the Land by Speek, Peter A. (Peter Alexander)
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