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pedagogue

[ped-uh-gog, -gawg] / ˈpɛd əˌgɒg, -ˌgɔg /


NOUN
dogmatist
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Ever the eager pedagogue, as played with buoyant energy by Mr. Morse, Beckett annotates her performance: “Haydn based that movement of the symphony on a folk song. From Croatia.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

Still, it’s a pleasure to enjoy something that’s both straight-faced and freewheeling, like a jazz pedagogue who also knows how to get a crowd dancing.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2025

Bach was a prolific composer and an important pedagogue, a significant influence on Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2022

The most idiosyncratic, quirky and brilliant in modern times was Pierre Cochereau, improviser, composer, pedagogue and one of the greatest organists of the 20th century.

From The Guardian • Apr. 16, 2019

One morning the pupils, who were two and two, found themselves growing very tired one by one, for their promenade had been prolonged unusually by the pedagogue.

From The Comic History of Rome by Becket, Gilbert Abbott ?




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