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PEDAGOGUE

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 36 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PEDAGOGUE , a teacher or schoolmaster, a See also:

term usually now applied with a certain amount of contempt, implying pedantry, dogmatism or narrow-mindedness. The Gr. 7rauia'ywyos (Trais, boy, ayu y6s, See also:leader, &See also:yew, to See also:lead), from which the See also:English word is derived, was not strictly an instructor. He was a slave in an Athenian See also:household who looked after the See also:personal safety of the sons of the See also:master of the See also:house, kept then` from See also:bad See also:company, and took them to and from school and the gymnasium. He probably sat with his charges in school. The boys were put in his See also:charge at the See also:age of six. The aatSaywybs, being a slave, was necessarily a foreigner, usually a Thracian or See also:Asiatic. The See also:Romans adopted the paedagogus or pedagogus towards the end of the See also:republic. He probably took some See also:part in the instruction of the boys (see See also:SCHOOLS). Under the See also:empire, the pedagogus was specifically the instructor of the boy slaves, who were being trained and educated in the household of the See also:emperor and of the See also:rich nobles and other persons; these boys lived together in a paedagogium, and were known as pueri paedagogiani, a name which has possibly See also:developed into " See also:page " (q.v.).

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