pedagogic

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The physical point on which he leans is not the physically beautiful, instrument of reproduction, but what may be called a pedagogic means, similar to retiring into solitude, or to the many other expedients, frequently very strange, adopted by artists and philosophers, who vary in these according to their various idiosyncrasies.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of pedagogy.
  2. adjective Characterized by pedantic formality: a haughty, pedagogic manner.

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  • But this is problematic when dictionaries need to be compact and portable, or include more and more features for pedagogic or marketing reasons.
  • 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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  1. = French pédagogique=Spanish pedagógico = Portuguese Italian pedagogico, from Greek παιδαγωγικός, of or pertaining to a teacher or to education, from παιδαγωγός, a teacher of youth: see pedagogue.
 

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/pɛdəˈgɑdʒɪk/
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