0 A person or a subject or skill that is unteachable cannot be taught:
The dyslexic author had once been considered "unteachable" at school.
Good salesmen have the unteachable quality of enthusiasm.
He is not a star pupil but it would be too soon to say that he is completely unteachable.
We reject all but the so-called unteachables, the ineducables.
We all know that a certain fraction are unteachable, but another smaller fraction are unwilling to be taught because there is the lack of incentive.
It is said that already some children are kept at school when they want to leave, and at an age when they are unteachable.
They have never hesitated to keep their children—however unteachable some of them may have been—at school very much beyond even the new school-leaving age.
She often lamented the fact that many children arrive at school unteachable.
That would have the same effect as the breakdown in status and selection in our education system: some children would be rejected by schools that consider them unteachable.
It has taken an extra 20 pupils who have been excluded from other schools, so 20 out of the 61 so-called unteachable children have already been excluded from other schools.
