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Pedagogy   /pˈɛdəgˌoʊdʒi/   Listen
Pedagogy

noun
1.
The principles and methods of instruction.  Synonyms: pedagogics, teaching method.
2.
The profession of a teacher.  Synonyms: instruction, teaching.  "Pedagogy is recognized as an important profession"
3.
The activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill.  Synonyms: didactics, education, educational activity, instruction, teaching.  "Our instruction was carefully programmed" , "Good classroom teaching is seldom rewarded"






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"Pedagogy" Quotes from Famous Books



... the English language Philip Scheikowitz adopted no particular system of pedagogy, but he combined the methods of Ollendorf, Chardenal, Ahn and Polatkin so successfully that in a few days Joseph possessed a fairly extensive vocabulary. To be sure, every other word was acquired at the cost of a clump over the side of the ...
— Elkan Lubliner, American • Montague Glass

... necessities of a modern community, plain enough to see, so that every man who is not blinded by prejudice and self-interest can see them to-day. We have now before us a phase of opportunity in educational organisation that will never recur again. Now that the apostolic succession of the old pedagogy is broken, and the entire system discredited, it seems incredible that it can ever again be reconstituted in its old seats upon the old lines. In these raw, harsh days of boundless opportunity, the opportunity of the new ...
— What is Coming? • H. G. Wells

... the familiarity of the markings and contour of the tremendous brute. Turning in such wise that of the appendices of his countenance it should be his short and elusive nose instead of his ears presented toward the grasp of the expert in the science of pedagogy, Klingenspiel continued. ...
— The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton • Wardon Allan Curtis

... "Affectionate comradeship" rather than "old-fashioned respect" is exemplified in the following anecdote of young America. A Professor of Pedagogy in a Western university brings up his children on the most advanced principles. Among other things, they are encouraged to sink the antiquated terms "father" and "mother," and call their parents by their Christian names. On one occasion, the children, ...
— America To-day, Observations and Reflections • William Archer

... direct contradiction with regard to associations, the way out is not easy. We have then, first, to consider how, by comparatively remote indirection, to introduce those conditions into the "funded'' complex, which will give rise to the association. But such a consideration is often a big problem in pedagogy, and we are rarely in the position ...
— Robin Hood • J. Walker McSpadden


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