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Scholastic vs Didactic - What's the difference?

scholastic | didactic |

As adjectives the difference between scholastic and didactic

is that scholastic is (scholastic) while didactic is didactic.

As a noun scholastic

is (scholastic).

scholastic

English

Alternative forms

* * (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (philosophy) a member of the medieval philosophical school of scholasticism; a medieval Christian Aristotelian

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or relating to school; academic
  • * This award is for the greatest scholastic achievement by a graduating student.
  • (philosophy) Of or relating to the philosophical tradition of scholasticism
    • (John Locke)
  • Characterized by excessive subtlety, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.

    • Derived terms

    * scholasticism * scholastically

    Related terms

    * scholar * academic

    didactic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * didactick (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality. (I.e., didactic poetry)
  • * Macaulay
    • The finest didactic poem in any language.
  • Excessively moralizing.
  • (medicine) Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.

    • Derived terms

    * didact * didactical * didactically * didacticism

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A treatise on teaching or education.