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docile (adjective):
1: easily taught
2: easily led or managed : tractable
Source : Merriam -Webster
Etymology : Docile students have always made teaching easier than it otherwise would be. Today calling students “docile” indicates that they aren’t trouble-makers, but there’s more than just good behavior connecting docility to teachability. The original meaning of docile is more to the point: “readily absorbing something taught.” “The docile mind may soon thy precepts know,” rendered Ben Jonson, for example, in a 17th-century translation of the Roman poet Horace. Docile comes from the Latin verb docere, which means “to teach.” Other descendants of docere include doctrine (which can mean “something that is taught”), document (an early meaning of which was “instruction”), and doctor and docent (both of which can refer to teachers).
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