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Recent Examples of pedagogue Even for instructors that care about teaching, keeping student’s attention is increasingly challenging from pedagogues at elementary schools to graduate school professors at elite universities as students show up distracted and on their phones. Sergei Revzin, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025 They are attracted to personalities that feel to them more like friends than pedagogues. Caroline Downey, National Review, 18 July 2025 Roach is, clearly, among fashion’s most powerful pedagogues. Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2025 The course is a two-year Master of Fine Arts degree and will prepare students to enter the industry as intimacy coordinators for film and visual media, intimacy directors for theater and live performance, and intimacy pedagogues for teaching in education and in the profession. Patrick Frater, Variety, 20 Mar. 2023 His main teacher was Leon Russianoff, a leading clarinet pedagogue of the latter half of the 20th century, after whom Mr. Drucker would name his son. Daniel J. Wakin, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2022 Former patients spoke of him as a highly empathetic and conscientious doctor; former colleagues attested to his surgical skills and his excellence as a clinician, pedagogue, and promoter of best practices. Will Self, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022 Boulanger, the younger sister of famed pedagogue and composer Nadia, showed tremendous talent before her early death at 24. Dallas News, 1 Mar. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pedagogue
teacher
Noun
  • Ronan’s character, Maria, is a beleaguered primary school teacher whose life is tough enough without the relentless onslaught of bad behavior by young Danny (Eddie Waller, in his debut role).
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Deep into an auditorium of hundreds, perhaps more, a then-60 year old high school social studies teacher, sitting alone, could feel eyes throughout the room suddenly glaring in his direction.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 5 Sep. 2025

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“Pedagogue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pedagogue. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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