Meanings
- rareuncountableThe quality of being a teacher who is proficient at teaching
The Wongs had saved my self-esteem and graciously showed me the path to great teacherness.
2015, Pernille Ripp, Passionate Learners, page 22 more examples
Methods of staffing and staff utilization in most public schools suggest that there is a quality—called "teacherness," perhaps—which, when a person becomes a teacher, overrides all his individuating qualities.
1972, Rodney Pennell Smith, Richard A. Dempsey, Differentiated staffing, page 2How to motivate and uplift the pupils? It is indeed here that the "teacherness" of a teacher is at least; it is here that his individuality asserts.
1990, S. K. Aggarwal, Investigative Journalism in India, page 54
Origin
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