Pedagogue vs Ochlagogue - What's the difference?
pedagogue | ochlagogue | Related terms |
A teacher or instructor of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young.
A pedant; one who by teaching has become overly formal or pedantic in his or her ways; one who has the manner of a teacher.
(historical, Ancient Greece) A slave who led the master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.
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(rare) A manipulator of a mob who holds sway by use of inflammatory rhetoric, casting opprobrium, and by appeal to the lowest common denominator generally; an extreme and wholly unscrupulous demagogue; one who practises ochlagogy.
* 1931 : Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, and Owen Seaman, Punch ,
Ochlagogue is a related term of pedagogue.
As nouns the difference between pedagogue and ochlagogue
is that pedagogue is a teacher or instructor of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young while ochlagogue is a manipulator of a mob who holds sway by use of inflammatory rhetoric, casting opprobrium, and by appeal to the lowest common denominator generally; an extreme and wholly unscrupulous demagogue; one who practises ochlagogy.pedagogue
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Alternative forms
*Noun
(en noun)- (Goldsmith)
Derived terms
* pedagogic * pedagogical * pedagogically * pedagogyReferences
ochlagogue
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Noun
(en noun)page 310(Punch Publications Ltd.)
- Ochlagogue ! What a name for an Irish horse! EVOK.