Adjective

• S: (adj) docile, teachable (ready and willing to be taught) "docile pupils eager for instruction"; "teachable youngsters"
• similar to
• S: (adj) tractable, manipulable (easily managed (controlled or taught or molded)) "tractable young minds"; "the natives...being...of an intelligent tractable disposition"- Samuel Butler
• derivationally related form
• antonym
• W: (adj) intractable [Indirect via tractable] (not tractable; difficult to manage or mold) "an intractable disposition"; "intractable pain"; "the most intractable issue of our era"; "intractable metal"