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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I couple these two words advisedly, for fifty years ago, pedagogics was a form of penology—the boarding-school with its mentors, scheme of fines, repressions and disgrace!
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 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)
This is a point of technical pedagogics or psychology.
From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Clark, Walter John
Education can nowhere be a question of mere pedagogics, and least of all in India.
From Indian Unrest by Chirol, Valentine, Sir
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