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The style of the paper is primarily pedagogic, employing a simple illustration to convey the essential ideas, unobscured by implementation complications.— CiteULike: Everyone's library
Friedrich Froebel, who first preached the propensity to play as a pedagogic dynamo, as the tides of the sea could be used to turn the countless wheels of trade, is yet only partially accepted, but has influenced every teacher in Christendom and stamped his personality upon the walls of schoolrooms unnumbered.— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8
There was some discussion, pedagogic and non-pedagogic, of the characteristics of the little people.— Atlantis
The other solution, which we shall call pedagogic or moralistico-utilitarian_, admits art, but only in so far as it concurs with the end of morality; in so far as it assists with innocent pleasure the work of him who leads to the true and the good; in so far as it sprinkles with dulcet balm the sides of the vase of wisdom and of morality It is well to observe that it would be an error to divide this second view into intellectualist and moralistico-utilitarian, according to whether the end of leading to the true or to what is practically good, be assigned to art.— Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic

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