Crossword clues for educable
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
educable
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ educable mentally handicapped students
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It declared them educable, took them out of their own homes and hospitals and brought them into full-time schooling.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
educable
educable \ed"u*ca*ble\ ([e^]d"[-u]*k[.a]*b'l; 135), a. [Cf. F.
Capable of being educated. ``Men are educable.''
--M. Arnold.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
educable
1836, "fit to be educated," 1836, from French éducable; see educate + -able.
Wiktionary
educable
a. Capable of being educated
Usage examples of "educable".
He found himself sometimes wishing to spend a while in Eschholz or one of the other preparatory schools instructing small boys in Latin, singing, or algebra, where the atmosphere was far less intellectual than it was even in the most elementary course in the Glass Bead Game, but where he would be dealing with still more receptive, plastic, educable pupils, where teaching and educating were more, and more deeply, a unity.