the activities of educating or instructing; activities that
impart knowledge or skill; "he received no formal education"; "our instruction was carefully programmed"; "good classroom teaching is seldom rewarded" Synonym(s):education, instruction, teaching, pedagogy, didactics, educational activity
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Didactics \Di*dac"tics\, n.
The art or science of teaching.