schoolteaching
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of schoolteaching
Example Sentences
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In strict biographical terms, he was the son of a stationmaster-cum-Methodist lay reader from North Yorkshire who, heading south to pursue a career in schoolteaching, ended up as the headmaster of a primary school in Kettering, Northamptonshire.
From The Guardian • Mar. 25, 2016
Note, please, how he insults Molesley on the eve of the footman’s new schoolteaching career: “There are plenty of little boys who want to be famous cricketers. It’s not enough to make them champions.”
From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2016
Lopatkin, who has given up schoolteaching and is now wholly dedicated to the cause of drainpipery, falls victim to a mysterious bureaucratic runaround.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the opening program, for example, Wagner, whose cover job is schoolteaching, delivered homilies on peace and cooperation while abstractedly tearing a telephone book in half.
From Time Magazine Archive
And Tansy kept coming up with new ideas never heard of in schoolteaching.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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