classes.
     [measuring degree of learning of pupils] test, examination, exam;
final exam, mid-term exam grade[result of measurement of learning], score, marks; A,B,C,D,E,F; gentleman’s C; pass, fail, incomplete.
     homework; take-home lesson; exercise for the student; theme, project. 
     V. teach, instruct, educate, edify, school, tutor; cram, prime, coach;
enlighten &c (inform) 527.
     inculcate, indoctrinate, inoculate, infuse, instill, infix,
ingraft[obs3], infiltrate; imbue, impregnate, implant; graft, sow the seeds of, disseminate.
     given an idea of; put up to, put in the way of; set right.
     sharpen the wits, enlarge the mind; give new ideas, open the eyes,
bring forward, “teach the young idea how to shoot” [Thomson]; improve &c. 658.
     expound &c (interpret) 522; lecture; read a lesson, give a lesson,
give a lecture, give a sermon, give a discourse; incept[obs3]; hold forth, preach; sermonize, moralize; point a moral.
     train, discipline; bring up, bring up to; form, ground, prepare,
qualify; drill, exercise, practice, habituate, familiarize with, nurture, drynurse[obs3], breed, rear, take in hand; break, break in; tame; preinstruct[obs3]; initiate; inure &c (habituate) 613.
     put to nurse, send to school.
     direct, guide; direct attention to &c. (attention) 457; impress upon
the mind, impress upon the memory; beat into, beat into the head; convince &c (belief) 484.
     [instructional materials] book, workbook, exercise book.
     [unnecessary teaching] preach to the wise, teach one’s grandmother to
suck eggs, teach granny to suck eggs; preach to the converted. 
     Adj. teaching &c.v; taught &c.v.; educational; scholastic, academic,
doctrinal; disciplinal[obs3]; instructive, instructional, didactic; propaedeutic[obs3], propaedeutical[obs3]. 
     Phr. the schoolmaster abroad; a bovi majori disscit arare minor[Lat];
adeo in teneris consuecere multum est [Lat][Vergil]; docendo discimus[Lat]; quaenocent docent[Lat]; qui docet discit[Latin]; “sermons in stones and good in everything” [As You Like It].

     #538.  Misteaching.—­ N. misteaching[obs3], misinformaton,
misintelligence[obs3], misguidance, misdirection, mispersuasion[obs3], misinstruction[obs3], misleading &c.v.; perversion, false teaching; sophistry &c 477; college of Laputa; the blind leading the blind.
     [misteaching by government agents] propaganda, disinformation,
agitprop; indoctrination. 
     V. misinform, misteach[obs3], misdescribe[obs3], misinstruct[obs3],
miscorrect[obs3]; misdirect, misguide; pervert; put on a false scent, throw off the scent, throw off the trail; deceive &c 545; mislead &c (error) 495; misrepresent; lie &c 544; ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces [Lat][Vergil].
     propagandize, disinform.
     render unintelligible &c 519; bewilder &c (uncertainty) 475; mystify
&c. (conceal) 528; unteach.
     [person or government agent who misteaches] propagandist. 
     Adj. misteaching &c.v[obs3]; unedifying. 
     Phr. piscem natare doces [Lat]; the blind leading the blind.