pedagogues

Noun

pedagogue (plural pedagogues)

1. A teacher or instructor of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young.
   • Jones chid the pedagogue for his interruption, and then the stranger proceeded.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC
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.
   • And novv I have gone thus far, perhaps you vvill think me ſome pedagogue, vvilling, by a vvell-timed puff, to encreaſe the reputation of his ovvn ſchool; but ſuch is not the caſe.1759 November 20 (Gregorian calendar), [Oliver] Goldsmith, “On Education”, in The Bee, a Select Collection of Essays, on the Most Interesting and Entertaining Subjects, […], new edition, number VI...
3. (historical, Ancient Greece) A slave who led the master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.

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