different between educationist vs pedagogue

English

Etymology

education +? -ist

Noun

educationist (plural educationists)

1. A specialist in the theory of education.

Synonyms

• educationalist

English

Alternative forms

• pædagogue
• pedagog
• paedagogue

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French pedagogue, from Latin paedag?gus, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (paidag?gós), from ???? (paîs, “child”) + ?????? (ag?gós, “guide”) (from ??? (ág?, “lead”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?d????/

Noun

pedagogue (plural pedagogues)

1. A teacher or instructor of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young.

   • Jones chid the pedagogue for his interruption, and then the stranger proceeded.

2. A pedant; one who by teaching has become overly formal or pedantic in his or her ways; one who has the manner of a teacher.
   • a. 1774, Oliver Goldsmith, essay

     And now I have gone thus far, perhaps you will think me some pedagogue, willing, by a well-timed puff, to increase the reputation of his own school

3. (historical, Ancient Greece) A slave who led the master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.

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Verb

pedagogue (third-person singular simple present pedagogues, present participle pedagoguing, simple past and past participle pedagogued)

1. To teach.

References

• Pedagogue in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Middle French

Etymology

First attested circa 1371, borrowed from Latin paedag?gus, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (paidag?gós).

Noun

pedagogue m (plural pedagogues)

1. pedagogue (one who teaches a child)

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