pedagogics
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of pedagogics
First recorded in 1860–65; pedagog(y) + -ics
Example Sentences
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Scientist Julian praises grandfather's prose, while Stylist Aldous praises his pedagogics.
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Talk to him of pedagogics and he talks of practical experience.
From Love and Mr. Lewisham by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
In so doing they warn us that in idealistic pedagogics all particular and definite concepts vanish, and what remains is a vague confused indistinctness of no practical utility to the teacher.
From The Reform of Education by Gentile, Giovanni
To uproot the power of the Sixth Form was the intent of a few reformers in pedagogics.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers by Hubbard, Elbert
—The escape from action in an artificial absence of all events in life, which often sinks to a veritable brutalizing of man, is the distinguishing feature of all monkish pedagogics.
From Pedagogics as a System by Brackett, Anna C. (Anna Callender)
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