The Collaborative International Dictionary
Teachable \Teach"a*ble\, a. Capable of being taught; apt to learn; also, willing to receive instruction; docile.
We ought to bring our minds free, unbiased, and
teachable, to learn our religion from the Word of God.
--I. Watts.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., "capable of being taught" (of persons), from teach (v.) + -able. Of subjects, from 1660s. Teachable moment, attested from 1917, not common until after c.1960, extends the sense to "appropriate for instruction." Related: Teachableness.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Capable of being teach; apt to learn. 2 Willing to receive instruction or to learn; docile. 3 That can be taught. 4 Facilitating teaching; instructive.
WordNet
adj. ready and willing to be taught; "docile pupils eager for instruction"; "teachable youngsters" [syn: docile]
Wikipedia
Teachable (formerly "Fedora") is a for-profit educational technology company based in New York that offers a social online learning platform designed to deliver massive open online courses ( MOOCs).
Usage examples of "teachable".
The more vigorous individuals of this class are the most teachable people in the world, and they are generally more moral and more trustworthy than the Poietic types.
The traditions going back to the great founders are an explicitly teachable knowledge that can be dogmatized, that is, professionally rationalized.
So, now that we have become more teachable, the time has come for us to take stock or ourselves.