The phrase "a failure to teach" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where teaching did not occur or was ineffective.
Example: "The report highlighted a failure to teach essential skills, leading to gaps in student knowledge."
Alternatives: "an inability to instruct" or "a lack of teaching".
It's a failure to teach, understand, admit or care that unprotected sex can lead to the creation — and the subsequent killing, through abortion — of a developing human being.
Indeed, education secretary Michael Gove has launched a review of the history curriculum, blaming political correctness for a failure to teach "one of the most inspiring stories I know – the history of our United Kingdom".
Anti-Semitism is no longer rampant, but it is partly a failure to teach history that allows Nadia Mateiko, an art student in Kolomiya, to say of Ms Tymoshenko: "I don't want this Jew to be the president of my country.
A failure to teach it may leave us unprepared for the challenges ahead.
The announcement last month that the scores had been low drew a collective sigh from local districts, where officials thought the results would be unfairly viewed as a reflection of their own failure to teach the new curriculum.
And Klebold talks of a survey indicating that '83percentt of respondents said that the parents' failure to teach Dylan and Eric proper values played a major part in the Columbine killings.'.
Failure to teach and enforce constitutional requirements exposes municipalities to financial liability.
He will say the failure to teach prisoners properly is indefensible, given the armed forces have already demonstrated that it is possible to teach poorly educated adults to a basic level of literacy and numeracy using tried and tested methods.
They can't say so publicly but they are tearing their hair out over our society's failure to teach children how to spot predators.
The drop, some critics say, is partly the result of law schools' overly academic training and their failure to teach students how to actually practice law.
