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PEDAGOG
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who educates young people
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("pedagog" is a kind of...):
professional; professional person (a person engaged in one of the learned professions)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pedagog"):
academic; academician; faculty member (an educator who works at a college or university)
lector; lecturer; reader (a public lecturer at certain universities)
head; head teacher; principal; school principal (the educator who has executive authority for a school)
schoolmaster (any person (or institution) who acts as an educator)
instructor; teacher (a person whose occupation is teaching)
Instance hyponyms:
McGuffey; William Holmes McGuffey (United States educator who compiled the McGuffey Eclectic Readers (1800-1873))
Maria Montesorri; Montessori (Italian educator who developed a method of teaching mentally handicapped children and advocated a child-centered approach (1870-1952))
Daniel Patrick Moynihan; Moynihan (United States politician and educator (1927-2003))
James Naismith; Naismith (United States educator (born in Canada) who invented the game of basketball (1861-1939))
Carl Orff; Orff (German musician who developed a widely used system for teaching music to children (1895-1982))
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody; Elizabeth Peabody; Peabody (educator who founded the first kindergarten in the United States (1804-1894))
Pitman; Sir Isaac Pitman (English educator who invented a system of phonetic shorthand (1813-1897))
Anne Mansfield Sullivan; Anne Sullivan; Sullivan (United States educator who was the teacher and lifelong companion of Helen Keller (1866-1936))
Booker T. Washington; Booker Taliaferro Washington; Washington (United States educator who was born a slave but became educated and founded a college at Tuskegee in Alabama (1856-1915))
Andrew D. White; Andrew Dickson White; White (United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918))
Emma Hart Willard; Willard (United States educator who was an early campaigner for higher education for women (1787-1870))
John Witherspoon; Witherspoon (American Revolutionary leader and educator (born in Scotland) who signed of the Declaration of Independence and was president of the college that became Princeton University (1723-1794))
Horace Mann; Mann (United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859))
Abbott Lawrence Lowell; Lowell (United States educator and president of Harvard University (1856-1943))
Laney; Lucy Craft Laney (United States educator who founded the first private school for Black students in Augusta, Georgia (1854-1933))
Hutchins; Robert Maynard Hutchins (United States educator who was president of the University of Chicago (1899-1977))
Hopkins; Mark Hopkins (United States educator and theologian (1802-1887))
Gallaudet; Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (United States educator who established the first free school in the United States for the hearing impaired (1787-1851))
Friedrich Froebel; Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel; Froebel (German educator who founded the kindergarten system (1782-1852))
Dewey; John Dewey (United States pragmatic philosopher who advocated progressive education (1859-1952))
Comenius; Jan Amos Komensky; John Amos Comenius (Czech educational reformer (1592-1670))
Carnegie; Dale Carnegie (United States educator famous for writing a book about how to win friends and influence people (1888-1955))
Braille; Louis Braille (French educator who lost his sight at the age of three and who invented a system of writing and printing for sightless people (1809-1852))
Bethune; Mary McLeod Bethune (United States educator who worked to improve race relations and educational opportunities for Black Americans (1875-1955))
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