pedagogue
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- someone who educates young peopleSynonyms: educatorpedagogType of professional, professional personKinds teacher, principal, lector, academician, schoolmasterExamples Moynihan, Braille, Dewey, Comenius, Froebel, Lowell, Hutchins, Maria Montessori, Gallaudet, Naismith +14 more
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Ped′a·gogue (pĕd′ā-gŏg), noun
Origin: F. pédagogue, L. paedagogus, Gr. παιδαγωγός; παῖς, παιδός, a boy + ἄγειν to lead, guide; cf. ἀγωγός leading. See Page a servant, Agent.
1. Greek antiquity A slave who led his master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.
2. A teacher of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young; a schoolmaster.
3. One who by teaching has become formal, positive, or pedantic in his ways; one who has the manner of a schoolmaster; a pedant. Oliver Goldsmith
Ped′a·gogue transitive verb
Origin: Cf. L. paedagogare to instruct.
To play the pedagogue toward. obsolete Matthew Prior
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54