ready and willing to be taught

In the direction of, In furtherance or partial fulfillment of, By way of achieving; with a view to, adjective_ Approaching; coming near, Readly to do or learn; compliant with duty; not froward; apt; docile; tractable, Yielding, pliant; docile; ready or apt to learn; not froward, adverb_ Near; at hand; in state of preparation

Easily managed or handled; docile, Suited to one of good breeding; refined and polite, the art or trade of shoemaking, noun_ One of good birth or relatively high station, A maggot or larva of the flesh-fly, used in fishing, transitive verb_ To make less severe or intense, To soothe, as by stroking; pacify, To tame or break (a horse)