Crossword clues for pedagogue
pedagogue
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pedagogue \Ped"a*gogue\, v. t. [Cf. L. paedagogare to instruct.]
To play the pedagogue toward. [Obs.]
--Prior.
Pedagogue \Ped"a*gogue\, n. [F. p['e]dagogue, L. paedagogus, Gr. ?; pai^s, paido`s, a boy + ? to lead, guide; cf. ? leading. See Page a servant, Agent.]
(Gr. Antiq.) A slave who led his master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.
A teacher of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young; a schoolmaster.
One who by teaching has become formal, positive, or pedantic in his ways; one who has the manner of a schoolmaster; a pedant.
--Goldsmith.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "schoolmaster, teacher," from Old French pedagoge "teacher of children" (14c.), from Latin paedagogus, from Greek paidagogos "slave who escorts boys to school and generally supervises them," later "a teacher," from pais (genitive paidos) "child" (see pedo-) + agogos "leader," from agein "to lead" (see act (n.)). Hostile implications in the word are at least from the time of Pepys (1650s). Related: Pedagogal.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A teacher or instructor of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young. 2 A pedant; one who by teaching has become overly formal or pedantic in his or her ways; one who has the manner of a teacher. 3 (context historical Ancient Greece English) A slave who led the master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.
WordNet
n. someone who educates young people [syn: educator]
Usage examples of "pedagogue".
Whereupon, with a serene and cheerful countenance, up rose the mighty form of Amyas Leigh, a head and shoulders above his tormentor, and that slate descended on the bald coxcomb of Sir Vindex Brimblecombe, with so shrewd a blow that slate and pate cracked at the same instant, and the poor pedagogue dropped to the floor, and lay for dead.
But, in truth, the pedagogue had a weakness he could not overcome, and when invited to take flip tossed off so many mugs as completely to loose his wits, though his tongue ran so nimbly that he was more than a match for the Dominie, who declined discussing a question of religion with him, but offered to tell a story for every song he would sing.
In the first days after the lazaret was captured, little master, before you woke from your coma, the pedagogues spent a great deal of time talking with me.
Writing about my teachers, I feel with growing dissatisfaction that I have fallen into one of the many ruts made by generations of professional memoirists, where one speaks of the gymnasium as a dollhouse -- from above, at a distance, with a sad smile, the pedagogues presented in gentle, forgiving caricature.
You are, Sir, a presumptuous, selfconceited pedagogue, a stirrer up of strife and commotion in church, in state, in families, and communities.
An ancient author tells us somewhere, with the tone of a pedagogue, if you have not done anything worthy of being recorded, at least write something worthy of being read.
Jones chid the pedagogue for his interruption, and then the stranger proceeded.
Academy, where the assembled pedagogues were waiting to sharpen their wits on a real, live Overlord.
Vorontsyev heard the voice and, as if at the study door of a feared pedagogue, blenched.
He never tires of re executing his guillotined adversaries, the Girondists, Chaumette, Hébert and especially Danton,[149] probably because Danton was the active agent in the Revolution of which he was simply the incapable pedagogue.
The schoolhouse being deserted soon fell to decay, and was reported to be haunted by the ghost of the unfortunate pedagogue and the plough-boy, loitering homeward of a still summer evening, has often fancied his voice at a distance, chanting a melancholy psalm tune among the tranquil solitudes of Sleepy Hollow.