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Merits.—Their extreme gentleness is one merit, and their tractability and teachability are others.

From The Domestic Cat by Stables, Gordon

SOCRATES, dealing in the Meno with the teachability of virtue, sends for one of Meno's slaves, to prove by him the possibility of absolutely certain a priori knowledge.

From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Gross, Hans Gustav Adolf

A code of manners which combined tolerance and teachability in receiving the ideas of others, with frankness and, if necessary courageous persistence in introducing one's own ideas....

From Child Versus Parent Some Chapters on the Irrepressible Conflict in the Home by Wise, Stephen