pupil–teacheradj.
/ˌpjuːplˈtiːtʃə/, U.S. /ˌpjup(ə)lˈtitʃər/ Education.
Designating the relation between pupils and teachers, esp. in pupil–teacher ratio n. the number of pupils to each teacher.
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pupil–teacher1922
teacher–pupil1965
1922 News-sentinel (Fort Wayne, Indiana) 23 Jan. 1/4 The pupil teacher ratio should be 25 and here it is 27 and over.
1955 Times 3 Nov. 13/4 ‘You are wasting your time,’ says one of the boys with that easy familiarity which marks the pupil-teacher relationship at Stonehill Street.
1958 J. Townsend Young Devils vi. 47 How vitally important a good pupil-teacher, teacher-headteacher and teacher-environment relationship had been considered at my training college.
1960 Where? Winter 16 Pupil-teacher ratio, the number of pupils to a teacher in a school.
1978 C. Hookway in C. Hookway & P. Pettit Action & Interpr. 40 There will be a network of pupil-teacher relations connecting them.
1991 Times Educ. Suppl. 11 Jan. 41/1 Good pupil-teacher ratios, plenty of play space and well resourced.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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