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supply teacher

British  

noun

  1. a teacher employed to replace other teachers when they are absent

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Little Man, Little Man is less polemical in tone but no less urgent about the need for education that does not simply teach students to “obey the rules of society.”

From Slate • Aug. 30, 2018

"Education must not simply teach work - it must teach life."

From Washington Post • Feb. 13, 2017

“They don’t get an F on any test. We simply teach them to keep going. It’s perseverance. It’s optimism.”

From Washington Times • Aug. 29, 2016

Why not simply teach it, like literature, from grades K-12?

From Time • Oct. 25, 2013

If in these passages they have the latter meaning, then they simply teach that the deluge destroyed the natural life of organic beings.

From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Hitchcock, Edward

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