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Example sentences for "pedagogy"

Lexicographically close words:
pedagogic; pedagogical; pedagogics; pedagogue; pedagogues; pedal; pedaled; pedaling; pedalled; pedalling
  1. No modern treatise on pedagogy begins with the statement that 'the ideal boy knows things without being taught them, and his sole wish is the advancement of science, but no boys at all like this have ever existed.

  2. That advance therefore of psychology which has transformed pedagogy and criminology has left politics largely unchanged.

  3. Accordingly, the Soviet concept in pedagogy was to be eradicated from the Albanian schools.

  4. Courses for teacher preparation were established in which the Russian language, Soviet methods of pedagogy and psychology, and Marxist-Leninist dialectics were taught by Soviet instructors.

  5. Matters were very different when pedagogy was succeeded by religion.

  6. Pedagogy has recognized its importance but it has not succeeded in promoting and developing it.

  7. Professor Munsterberg, in the Atlantic Monthly for May, has done pedagogy this service by subjecting the elective system and professional training for high-school teachers to considerable good-natured ridicule.

  8. Through the forced results of the university monopoly there are no actual universities: among other results of the Napoleonic institution, one could after 1808 note, the decadence of pedagogy and foresee its early demise.

  9. A system of historical pedagogy has been devised.

  10. The guiding principle of historical pedagogy will therefore be to seek for those subjects and those methods which are best calculated to exhibit social phenomena and give an understanding of their evolution.

  11. Lastly, pedagogy (theoretical and practical) will not be neglected.

  12. But farming, interspersed with pedagogy and pugilism, fired Melville to a mood of desperation.

  13. Smith, in his Biographical Sketch already cited, dates this “memorable” mating of pedagogy and pugilism somewhat earlier.

  14. The unfortunate effects of the monitorial system upon English education show the reality of the service which this religious congregation rendered to the national pedagogy in France.

  15. The same which modern pedagogy applies in every branch of instruction.

  16. Modern pedagogy tends to favour the former of each of these alternatives: whereas the teachers of the past generations generally pronounced in favour of the latter.

  17. Pedagogy seemed one of the most perplexing of words.

  18. If a new and scientific pedagogy is to arise from the study of the individual, such study must occupy itself with the observation of free children.

  19. It was near the end of the year 1906, and I had just returned from Milan, where I had been one of a committee at the International Exhibition for the assignment of prizes in the subjects of Scientific Pedagogy and Experimental Psychology.

  20. But in pedagogy this study of the individual, though it must accompany the very different work of education, is a limited and secondary part of the science as a whole.

  21. Child psychology and pedagogy must establish their content by successive conquests arrived at through the method of experimentation.

  22. That concept of liberty which must inspire pedagogy is, instead, universal.

  23. One day one of the teachers was ill, and I sent as a substitute a pupil of mine, Signorina Anna Fedeli, a professor of pedagogy in a Normal school.

  24. He who would say that the principle of liberty informs the pedagogy of to-day, would make us smile as at a child who, before the box of mounted butterflies, should insist that they were alive and could fly.

  25. This is what is meant in pedagogy by "proceeding from the known to the related unknown.

  26. It is neither good pedagogy nor good manners for a teacher to sit unresponsive and inattentive when a pupil is reciting.

  27. Pedagogy then becomes simply a selection of those chapters in psychology which deal with the mental functions of the child.

  28. Then, for instance, pedagogy becomes simply applied psychology, and the psychological point of view is substituted for the educational one.

  29. A champion of the transformation of pedagogy into a psycho-physiological science is to be found in Sweden in the person of Prof.

  30. The library movement has grown with such startling rapidity that it has not been possible to codify the best methods of library work, but there has been an earnest endeavor to establish a body of library pedagogy by careful experimentation.

  31. I am now thoroughly persuaded that Mr. Lucas gave expression to a great principle of pedagogy in what he said about hypocrisy, and I shall try to be diligent in applying it.

  32. I must begin where the colt (or boy) is, as the book on pedagogy says.

  33. I do hope I may never know so much about technical pedagogy that I shall not know anything else.

  34. I had another valuable lesson in this phase of pedagogy the day my friend Vance and I sojourned to Indianapolis to call upon Mr. Benjamin Harrison, who had somewhat recently completed his term as President of the United States.

  35. If there was any pedagogy connected with the work, it was purely accidental.

  36. If one cannot learn pedagogy there it is no fault of the potato-patch.

  37. I'd stake my claim on farm pedagogy and then go on hoeing my potatoes while thinking out what to say on the subject.

  38. The incident is brimful of pedagogy in that it shows that, in order to cure a horse of an attack of balking, you have but to distract his mind from his balking and get him to thinking of something else.

  39. Sparta has furnished us with a practical example that is very far from the principles which scientific pedagogy is to-day seeking to formulate as a new necessity of social progress.

  40. Now, in pedagogy we have no criterion to guide us in this matter of respecting the weaknesses characteristic of the various ages, as, for example, that of early infancy and of the age of puberty.

  41. Medical care working hand in hand with pedagogy may save from parasitism individual human beings who otherwise would be lost.

  42. But no one will ever make a successful study of medical pedagogy unless he will follow the practical lessons dedicated to the individual study of the scholar, and make a practice of personal observation.

  43. From this degree of blindness and unconsciousness the school will certainly be rescued by means of the scientific trend which pedagogy is to-day acquiring through the study of the pupil.

  44. If general pedagogy is destined to be transformed under a naturalistic impulse, this will be effected only when anthropology turns its investigations to the normal human being.

  45. A direct contribution to pedagogy and at the same time to scientific sociology is given by the biographic charts in the "Children's Houses.

  46. I was at that time an interloper, because the subsequent felicitous union between medicine and pedagogy still remained a thing undreamed of, in the thoughts of that period.

  47. This is precisely the new development of pedagogy that goes under the name of scientific: in order to educate, it is essential to know those who are to be educated.

  48. While therapeutics prescribe bromides and warm baths, pedagogy is to-day following a very different course with a combined treatment of hygiene and education.

  49. This discord between the demands of pedagogy and reality has of late found its peculiarly striking expression not only in the matter of instruction itself, but also in another very important side of the school, namely in its administration.

  50. The only criterion of pedagogy is freedom, the only method--experience.

  51. Now that the masses are on all sides begging for education, while pedagogy has more than ever passed to personal fancies, this discord has reached incredible proportions.

  52. To this question German pedagogy gives an answer which is quite consistent with its whole system.

  53. The most natural cause which has led pedagogy to the false path on which it now stands, is the criticism of the old order, the criticism for the sake of criticism, without positing new principles in the place of those criticized.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pedagogy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    direction; edification; education; enlightenment; guidance; illumination; information; instruction; pedagogy; schooling; tuition; tutelage; tutorship