taught
Showed the way
Taught is the past tense and past participle of teach.
Someone taught you to read; you were taught manners.
The word sometimes emphasizes instruction received rather than given: She's self-taught on guitar.
He taught high school for thirty years.
Unit of teaching
- tutorIndividual instruction provider
- coachOne who instructs
- lectureEducational spoken presentation
- seminarGroup discussion for learning
workshop · demonstration · tutorial · educator · professor · schooling · classroom · blackboard
Advice for decisions
- advisorOne who gives guidance
- counselorOne who advises
- guruRevered authority figure
- senseiJapanese word for teacher
master · protégé · apprentice · mentee · sponsor · wisdom · nurturing · experience
Mental comprehension of something
- comprehensionMental understanding of meaning
- insightDeep perceptive understanding
- awarenessState of perceiving reality
- literacyAbility to read, write
enlightenment · wisdom · scholarship · erudition · expertise · proficiency · mastery · grasp
Inflexibility in enforcement
- obedienceCompliance with authority
- correctionFixing of mistakes
- punishmentPenalty for an offense
- rulesPrinciples governing behavior
enforcement · behavior · rigor · drill · manners · respect · conduct · self-control
lesson
Unit of teaching
seminar · workshop · demonstration · tutorial · educator · professor · schooling · classroom · blackboard · training
guidance
Advice for decisions
sensei · master · protégé · apprentice · mentee · sponsor · wisdom · nurturing · experience · elder
understanding
Mental comprehension of something
- comprehensionMental understanding of meaning
- insightDeep perceptive understanding
- awarenessState of perceiving reality
literacy · enlightenment · wisdom · scholarship · erudition · expertise · proficiency · mastery · grasp · retention
strictness
Inflexibility in enforcement
- obedienceCompliance with authority
- correctionFixing of mistakes
- punishmentPenalty for an offense
rules · enforcement · behavior · rigor · drill · manners · respect · conduct · self-control · restraint
- past tensewent, was, were, had, got
- past participlesbeen, done, gone, seen, taken
- T-T wordstattletale, titillate, tatterdemalion, tutti-frutti, teetotaler
- tightnesstight, taut, snug, constricting, compressed
taughtself-taught
Educated without instructors
untaught · autodidactic · self-educated · innate · uneducated
taughtuntaught
Never given lessons
uneducated · unschooled · untrained · unlearned · uninstructed
- taught someone a lessonImposed corrective consequences
- self-taught artistCreator without formal instruction