as in teacher
a person whose occupation is to give formal instruction in a school
a pedagogue whose classroom lessons consisted entirely of reading directly from the textbook in a monotone
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The course is a two-year Master of Fine Arts degree and will prepare students to enter the industry as intimacy coordinators for film and visual media, intimacy directors for theater and live performance, and intimacy pedagogues for teaching in education and in the profession.
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Patrick Frater, Variety, 20 Mar. 2023
His main teacher was Leon Russianoff, a leading clarinet pedagogue of the latter half of the 20th century, after whom Mr. Drucker would name his son.
—Daniel J. Wakin, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2022
Boulanger, the younger sister of famed pedagogue and composer Nadia, showed tremendous talent before her early death at 24.
—Dallas News, 1 Mar. 2022
Former patients spoke of him as a highly empathetic and conscientious doctor; former colleagues attested to his surgical skills and his excellence as a clinician, pedagogue, and promoter of best practices.
—Will Self, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
Montessori researches the pedagogue Édouard Séguin, who worked with children in a Paris asylum half a century earlier.
—Rivka Galchen, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022
But Andrew Glyn was first and foremost a teacher, an intellectually insatiable pedagogue with a desire to foster among his students a hunger for a broad understanding of the discipline.
—Gerard Baker, WSJ, 21 June 2021
New York City’s government employs more than 325,000, which includes around 269,900 civilian and pedagogue workers, according to the Independent Budget Office, a fiscal watchdog agency funded by the city.
—Katie Honan, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2020
There is hardly a paragraph in which Berryman—poet, pedagogue, boozehound, and symphonic self-destroyer—may not be heard straining toward the condition of music.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2020
Patrick Frater, Variety, 20 Mar. 2023
His main teacher was Leon Russianoff, a leading clarinet pedagogue of the latter half of the 20th century, after whom Mr. Drucker would name his son.
—Daniel J. Wakin, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2022
Boulanger, the younger sister of famed pedagogue and composer Nadia, showed tremendous talent before her early death at 24.
—Dallas News, 1 Mar. 2022
Former patients spoke of him as a highly empathetic and conscientious doctor; former colleagues attested to his surgical skills and his excellence as a clinician, pedagogue, and promoter of best practices.
—Will Self, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
Montessori researches the pedagogue Édouard Séguin, who worked with children in a Paris asylum half a century earlier.
—Rivka Galchen, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022
But Andrew Glyn was first and foremost a teacher, an intellectually insatiable pedagogue with a desire to foster among his students a hunger for a broad understanding of the discipline.
—Gerard Baker, WSJ, 21 June 2021
New York City’s government employs more than 325,000, which includes around 269,900 civilian and pedagogue workers, according to the Independent Budget Office, a fiscal watchdog agency funded by the city.
—Katie Honan, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2020
There is hardly a paragraph in which Berryman—poet, pedagogue, boozehound, and symphonic self-destroyer—may not be heard straining toward the condition of music.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2020
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“Pedagogue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pedagogue. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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