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Example sentences for "pedagogues"

Lexicographically close words:
pecus; pedagogic; pedagogical; pedagogics; pedagogue; pedagogy; pedal; pedaled; pedaling; pedalled
  1. The hacks and pedagogues and middle-class metaphysicians who abused him, and only when it dawned on them that they were making themselves silly, in the eyes of their own flock even, took to patronizing, are forgot.

  2. A diligent and thoroughly competent master might give boys a fair proficiency in both Latin and Greek, in a shorter time and with less labour than the common run of pedagogues take to teach their babble.

  3. One wades through treatise after treatise on English style by pedagogues whose own style is atrocious.

  4. The Materials of American/--One familiar with the habits of pedagogues need not be told that, in their grudging discussions of American, they have spent most of their energies upon vain attempts to classify its materials.

  5. The American, like the Elizabethan Englishman, is usually quite unconscious of them and even when they have been instilled into him by the hard labor of pedagogues he commonly pays little heed to them in his ordinary discourse.

  6. The tales of flogging under these pedagogues were so absolutely sickening, that Dr Burton's family used to beg him to stop his narrations to spare their feelings.

  7. We had now marched about twenty miles and the feet of the pedagogues were a mass of blisters.

  8. Sailors, household servants, field workers, clerks in shops and offices, accountants, and pedagogues were among the more common occupations of slaves in Greece.

  9. A chair for the master, benches for the pupils, an outer room for cloaks and for the pedagogues to wait in, and a bundle of rods (ferula) constituted the necessary equipment.

  10. The evidently enhanced respect of the College of Pedagogues pleased Lewisham extremely.

  11. Dear me," said the College of Pedagogues gravely, and regarding Mr. Lewisham over gold-rimmed glasses.

  12. Thence he went to the College of Pedagogues in Holborn.

  13. The College of Pedagogues presented itself as a long-bearded, corpulent, comfortable person with a thin gold watch chain and fat hands.

  14. This was the course used by parents; but the pedagogues of course confined themselves to their favourite scheme of instruction and reformation by punishment.

  15. In Lacedaemon, pedagogues chastised their scholars by biting their thumbs.

  16. No one would demur upon punishing a judge with death who should condemn a criminal on the account of his own choler; why, then, should fathers and pedagogues be any more allowed to whip and chastise children in their anger?

  17. The cooperation of the pedagogues with the social forces—this is how the Commission will work both in its own constitution, in the State Committee, and in all its activities.

  18. The Pedagogues and the Societists: The State Commission welcomes the pedagogues to the bright and honourable work of educating the people—the masters of the country.

  19. He was one of those pitiful pedagogues of the rural South, shiftless, half-educated, inefficient.

  20. Delaroche was one of the thousand pedagogues which the American government sent to flood these benighted isles with the lime light of civilisation.

  21. While the college pedagogues of the Brander Matthews type still worshipped the dead bones of Scribe and Sardou, Robertson and Bulwer-Lytton, he preached the new and revolutionary gospel of Ibsen.

  22. Those artistic pedagogues enrage me; they remind me of Protestant pastors and of the friars that go around dressed like peasants, and who I think are called Brothers of the Christian Doctrine.

  23. The pedagogues are Brothers of the Esthetic Doctrine, one of the stupidest inventions that ever occurred to the English.

  24. As for your sublime pedagogues of the Ruskin type, they seem to me to be the fine flower of priggishness, of pedantry, of the most objectionable bourgeoisie.

  25. You should hear the pedagogues when they explain our history on the portico of the temple of Diana!

  26. It seems that the pedagogues of Norway have formed a happy combination of some methods of instruction.

  27. I know you pedagogues stick obstinately to what you call a good general grounding; but, if I may say so, you ought to specialise a bit more.

  28. To be a true teacher of the piano is a high calling indeed; for there are many pedagogues but comparatively few real teachers.

  29. Once spelling was a matter of fashion or even individual taste; and as the constraint grew, two pedagogues in the thirteenth century fought a duel for the right spelling of the word, and that maintained by the survivor prevailed.

  30. Youth has been left to meet these high needs alone, and the prevalence of these crude forms is an indictment of the delinquency of pedagogues in not teaching their pupils to develop and use their intellect properly.

  31. They differ from those old-fashioned thinkers, who considered pedagogues as sober and venerable characters, and allied to the parental.

  32. They call on the rising generation in France to take a sympathy in the adventures and fortunes, and they endeavour to engage their sensibility on the side of pedagogues who betray the most awful family trusts, and vitiate their female pupils.

  33. I purchased from the itinerant pedagogues of Bornou two of their ink-bottles, which are made of small calabashes.

  34. These itinerant pedagogues are negroes; and it is certainly a curious circumstance that from Central Africa instruction should migrate northwards.

  35. I just now recollect quite a number of pedagogues who in turn ruled me in my youthful days.

  36. I got most of my education from pedagogues of the old sort.

  37. Of course pedagogues differed slightly in the matter of particular disposition and real character, but in a general way they had a close family resemblance.

  38. Do but come in when they are about their lesson, and you shall hear nothing but the outcries of boys under execution, with the thundering noise of their pedagogues drunk with fury.

  39. As pedagogues were not allowed to enter the schoolroom, it seems likely that they had also to leave the theatre after having shown their young masters to their seats.

  40. Boys were accompanied by pedagogues up to their sixteenth year.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pedagogues" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.