Sentence:  In winter , in the city , there had been the Maneret School , which <WSD>taught</WSD> excellently with a kind of austere passion for knowledge ; there had been lessons in French from a small Polish nobleman with a really profound distaste for his pupils ; there had been the dancing class - Miss Craddock , thin and tireless , with her supervising wand and her everlasting one-two-three , one-two-three . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  impart skills or knowledge to