Pedagogue Definition

pĕdə-gŏg, -gôg
pedagogues
noun
pedagogues
A schoolteacher; an educator.
American Heritage
A teacher; often, specif., a pedantic, dogmatic teacher.
Webster's New World

A teacher or instructor of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young.

Wiktionary

(historical, Ancient Greece) A slave who led the master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.

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pedagogue
Plural:
pedagogues

Origin of Pedagogue

  • Middle English pedagoge from Old French from Latin paedagōgus slave who supervised children and took them to and from school from Greek paidagōgos paido- boy pedo–1 agōgos leader (from agein to lead ag- in Indo-European roots)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle French pedagogue, from Latin paedagogus, from Ancient Greek παιδαγωγέω (paidagōgeō), παιδαγωγός (paidagogos), from παιδός (paidos, “child") (genitive of παῖς (pais)) + ἀγωγός (agogos, “guide"), άγω (ágō, “lead").

    From Wiktionary

Pedagogue Sentence Examples

  • The best pedagogue is not he who descends to hs pupils from the heights but he who rises to new levels together with them.

  • Thus there is many " a pedagogue to Christ," and the Christian visible means and expressions are the culmination and measure of what, in various degrees and forms, accompanies every sincerely striving soul throughout all human history.

  • Horace (Epistles, ii.) criticizes his old schoolmaster and describes him as plagosus (a flogger), and Orbilius has become proverbial as a disciplinarian pedagogue.

  • The lively enthusiasm and the furious opposition which greeted Protagoras had now burnt themselves out, and before long the sophist was treated by the man of the world as a harmless, necessary pedagogue.

  • This supporter was Richard Mulcaster, the great pedagogue, head of the famous schools of Merchant Taylor's and St. Paul's.

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