pedagogue
Other forms: pedagogues
Pedagogue is another name for "teacher," but one who is strict, stiff or old-fashioned. The word comes from the Greek pedo for "child" and agogos for "leader." A pedagogue leads people by teaching.
The noun pedagogue, pronounced "PED-uh-gog," originally referred to "a slave who brings boys to school." Although the similar word pedagogy is the art of teaching, pedagogue has negative connotations. To call a teacher a pedagogue implies that he or she is "the teacher that time forgot," possibly using notes and handouts from twenty years ago, standing in that same spot, year after year, saying the same things, as students stare out the same windows.
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someone who educates young peopleexamples:Mary McLeod BethuneUnited States educator who worked to improve race relations and educational opportunities for Black Americans (1875-1955)Louis BrailleFrench educator who lost his sight at the age of three and who invented a system of writing and printing for sightless people (1809-1852)Dale CarnegieUnited States educator famous for writing a book about how to win friends and influence people (1888-1955)John Amos ComeniusCzech educational reformer (1592-1670)John DeweyUnited States pragmatic philosopher who advocated progressive education (1859-1952)Friedrich Wilhelm August FroebelGerman educator who founded the kindergarten system (1782-1852)Thomas Hopkins GallaudetUnited States educator who established the first free school in the United States for the hearing impaired (1787-1851)Mark HopkinsUnited States educator and theologian (1802-1887)Robert Maynard HutchinsUnited States educator who was president of the University of Chicago (1899-1977)Lucy Craft LaneyUnited States educator who founded the first private school for Black students in Augusta, Georgia (1854-1933)Abbott Lawrence LowellUnited States educator and president of Harvard University (1856-1943)Horace MannUnited States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859)William Holmes McGuffeyUnited States educator who compiled the McGuffey Eclectic Readers (1800-1873)Maria MontesorriItalian educator who developed a method of teaching mentally handicapped children and advocated a child-centered approach (1870-1952)Daniel Patrick MoynihanUnited States politician and educator (1927-2003)James NaismithUnited States educator (born in Canada) who invented the game of basketball (1861-1939)Carl OrffGerman musician who developed a widely used system for teaching music to children (1895-1982)Elizabeth Palmer Peabodyeducator who founded the first kindergarten in the United States (1804-1894)Sir Isaac PitmanEnglish educator who invented a system of phonetic shorthand (1813-1897)Anne Mansfield SullivanUnited States educator who was the teacher and lifelong companion of Helen Keller (1866-1936)Booker Taliaferro WashingtonUnited States educator who was born a slave but became educated and founded a college at Tuskegee in Alabama (1856-1915)Andrew Dickson WhiteUnited States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918)Emma Hart WillardUnited States educator who was an early campaigner for higher education for women (1787-1870)John WitherspoonAmerican Revolutionary leader and educator (born in Scotland) who signed of the Declaration of Independence and was president of the college that became Princeton University (1723-1794)types:head, head teacher, principal, school principalthe educator who has executive authority for a schoolschoolmasterany person (or institution) who acts as an educatorart teachersomeone who teaches artBahaia teacher of or believer in Bahaismcatechistone who instructs catechumens in preparation for baptism (especially one using a catechism)chancellorthe honorary or titular head of a universitycoach, private instructor, tutora person who gives private instruction (as in singing, acting, etc.)demonstratora teacher or teacher's assistant who demonstrates the principles that are being taughtdocenta teacher at some universitiesFrench teachersomeone who teaches Frenchgovernessa woman entrusted with the care and supervision of a child (especially in a private home)headmistressa woman headmasterinstructressa woman instructormissionarysomeone who attempts to convert others to a particular doctrine or programmusic teachersomeone who teaches musicreading teachersomeone who teaches students to readriding mastersomeone who teaches horsemanshipscience teachersomeone who teaches sciencesection mansomeone who teaches a section of a large college courseteaching fellowa graduate student with teaching responsibilitiestype of:
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