pedagogics

[ ped-uh-goj-iks, -goh-jiks ]

noun

, (used with a singular verb)

1. the science or art of teaching or education; pedagogy.

pedagogics

/ ˌpɛdəˈɡɒdʒɪks; -ˈɡəʊ- /

noun

1. functioning as singular another word for pedagogy

Word History and Origins

Origin of pedagogics¹

First recorded in 1860–65; pedagog(y) + -ics

Example Sentences

It surely will happen, sooner or later, that the careful student of practical pedagogics will be able to get along without writing, merely formulating fit questions in his mind as he studies the lesson.

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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.

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I have no technical knowledge of pedagogics; I must admit that.

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—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.

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The field of college pedagogics is still virgin soil, and no significant or extensive program for improved methods of teaching has yet been advanced.

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