Docile

a.	1.	Teachable; easy to teach; docible.
	2.	Disposed to be taught; tractable; easily managed; as, a docile child. The elephant is at once docible and docile. - C. J. Smith.

Adj.	1.	docile - willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed; "the docile masses of an enslaved nation" Antonyms: stubborn - tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield
	2.	docile - ready and willing to be taught; "docile pupils eager for instruction"; "teachable youngsters" Synonyms: teachable
	3.	docile - easily handled or managed; "a gentle old horse, docile and obedient" Synonyms: gentle

acquiescent, adaptable, agreeable, alacritous, amenable, apt, ardent, biddable, bright, clever, compliant, consenting, content, cooperative, disposed, ductile, eager, educable, enthusiastic, facile, fain, favorable, favorably disposed, favorably inclined, flexible, formable, forward, game, impressionable, in the mind, in the mood, inclined, instructable, intelligent, malleable, minded, moldable, motivated, plastic, pliable, predisposed, prompt, prone, quick, ready, ready and willing, receptive, responsive, ripe for instruction, schoolable, susceptible, thirsty for knowledge, tractable, trainable, well-disposed, well-inclined, willed, willing, willinghearted, yielding, zealous

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