teaching

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He says, "The conscientious study would be useful to humanity by teaching the use and unteaching the abuse of the Malthusian system, 536 whereby the family is duly limited to the necessities of society."

From The Life of Sir Richard Burton by Wright, Thomas

After that Shorty returned to the bunk house, and the Virginian knew that the boy had learned his lesson of discontent from Trampas with a thoroughness past all unteaching.

From The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains by Wister, Owen

Early impressions are the most lasting, and the hardest part of school work for the teacher is the unteaching of false ideas, and the correcting of imperfectly formed and partially understood ideas.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881 by Various