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A.Word.A.Day--pedagoguePronunciation: WAV or RealAudiopedagogue (PED-a-gog) noun, also pedagog 1. A schoolteacher; an educator. 2. One who instructs in a pedantic or dogmatic manner. [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).] "They also taught that `persistent perversity provokes the patient pedagogue to produce particularly painful punishment.'" Roger Kimball, Anything Goes, Nothing Matters, Forbes, Oct 4, 99. This week's theme: words from the world of learning and the learned.
X-BonusNo horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. -Harry Emerson Fosdick
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