If a thing admits of being taught, there must be both teachers and learners of it.
If there are neither teachers nor learners of a thing, that thing does not admit of being taught.
Since there is a twofold way of acquiring knowledge--by discovery and by being taught--the way of discovery is the higher, and the way of being taught is secondary.
Now as a fitting age is required for a man to acquire knowledge by discovery, so also that he may acquire it by being taught.
He punishes for the sake of prevention, thereby clearly implying that virtue is capable of being taught.
Protagoras, on the other hand, who started by saying that it might be taught, is now eager to prove it to be anything rather than knowledge; and if this is true, it must be quite incapable of being taught.
Their objection is not to being taught, but to being told that some one way is right without having had the chance to know why, or whether indeed it is the right way.
This resistance to being taught, it seems, is nothing more nor less than a wayward desire of a worker to do his own way because it is his way, and of course from the managers' point of view, that is stupid.
It is incredible to factory managers that workers object to being taught "right" ways of doing things.
But those who live morally and who believe in a Divine, and who care very little about being taught, are in the outmost or first heaven.
His doctrine is pure, and as far as we can judge, those who will content themselves with being taught by him in simplicity, and will shew themselves docile, will be able to profit by his preaching.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "being taught" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
