Pedagogy

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Pedagogy is the study and practice of teaching

  • etymology (word origin):
    • from Middle English/ French pedagoge for "schoolmaster, teacher of children"
      • which is from Latin paedagogus
    • Greek paidagōgos for "slave who escorts boys to school and generally supervises them"
      • which became "a teacher or trainer of boys"
    • paisfor "child" (pedos) + agōgos "leader"
      • agōgosis from agein for "to lead"
      • from PIE root *ag- for "to drive, draw out or forth, move"