Word of the day - pedagogue
Interesting word of the day - Pedagogue
Would Severus Snape also be a Pedagogue? A slave to 2 masters: One Dark Lord and One Dumbledore. And teaching children. Especially teaching Harry in Occlumency. Yes?
Today's Word "pedagogue"
An educator
pedagogue \PED-a-gog\ (noun) also pedagog - 1 : A schoolteacher; an educator. 2 : One who instructs in a pedantic or dogmatic manner.
"As the saying goes, persistent perversity provokes the patient pedagogue to produce particularly painful punishment."
Middle English pedagoge, from Old French, from Latin paedagogus, slave who supervised children, including taking them to and from school, from Greek paidagogos : paido-, boy + agogos, leader (from agein, to lead).
Would Severus Snape also be a Pedagogue? A slave to 2 masters: One Dark Lord and One Dumbledore. And teaching children. Especially teaching Harry in Occlumency. Yes?
Today's Word "pedagogue"
An educator
pedagogue \PED-a-gog\ (noun) also pedagog - 1 : A schoolteacher; an educator. 2 : One who instructs in a pedantic or dogmatic manner.
"As the saying goes, persistent perversity provokes the patient pedagogue to produce particularly painful punishment."
Middle English pedagoge, from Old French, from Latin paedagogus, slave who supervised children, including taking them to and from school, from Greek paidagogos : paido-, boy + agogos, leader (from agein, to lead).