Pedagogy

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"