Friday, January 19, 2007

pedagogue

pedagogue (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 formal or pedantic in his or her ways; one who has the manner of a teacher.

3. (archaic) A slave who led the master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.

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