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pedagog

Noun

Someone who educates young people (synset 110065521)
is a type of: professional, professional person - a person engaged in one of the learned professions
subtypes:
- academic, academician, faculty member - an educator who works at a college or university
- lector, lecturer, reader - a public lecturer at certain universities
- head, head teacher, principal, school principal - the educator who has executive authority for a school
- schoolmaster - any person (or institution) who acts as an educator
- instructor, teacher - a person whose occupation is teaching
specific instances:
- bethune, mary mcleod bethune - United States educator who worked to improve race relations and educational opportunities for Black Americans (1875-1955)
- braille, louis braille - French educator who lost his sight at the age of three and who invented a system of writing and printing for sightless people (1809-1852)
- carnegie, dale carnegie - United States educator famous for writing a book about how to win friends and influence people (1888-1955)
- comenius, jan amos komensky, john amos comenius - Czech educational reformer (1592-1670)
- dewey, john dewey - United States pragmatic philosopher who advocated progressive education (1859-1952)
- friedrich froebel, friedrich wilhelm august froebel, froebel - German educator who founded the kindergarten system (1782-1852)
- gallaudet, thomas hopkins gallaudet - United States educator who established the first free school in the United States for the hearing impaired (1787-1851)
- hopkins, mark hopkins - United States educator and theologian (1802-1887)
- hutchins, robert maynard hutchins - United States educator who was president of the University of Chicago (1899-1977)
- laney, lucy craft laney - United States educator who founded the first private school for Black students in Augusta, Georgia (1854-1933)
- abbott lawrence lowell, lowell - United States educator and president of Harvard University (1856-1943)
- horace mann, mann - United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859)
- mcguffey, william holmes mcguffey - United States educator who compiled the McGuffey Eclectic Readers (1800-1873)
- maria montesorri, montessori - Italian educator who developed a method of teaching mentally handicapped children and advocated a child-centered approach (1870-1952)
- daniel patrick moynihan, moynihan - United States politician and educator (1927-2003)
- james naismith, naismith - United States educator (born in Canada) who invented the game of basketball (1861-1939)
- carl orff, orff - German musician who developed a widely used system for teaching music to children (1895-1982)
- elizabeth palmer peabody, elizabeth peabody, peabody - educator who founded the first kindergarten in the United States (1804-1894)
- pitman, sir isaac pitman - English educator who invented a system of phonetic shorthand (1813-1897)
- anne mansfield sullivan, anne sullivan, sullivan - United States educator who was the teacher and lifelong companion of Helen Keller (1866-1936)
- booker t. washington, booker taliaferro washington, washington - United States educator who was born a slave but became educated and founded a college at Tuskegee in Alabama (1856-1915)
- andrew d. white, andrew dickson white, white - United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918)
- emma hart willard, willard - United States educator who was an early campaigner for higher education for women (1787-1870)
- john witherspoon, witherspoon - American Revolutionary leader and educator (born in Scotland) who signed of the Declaration of Independence and was president of the college that became Princeton University (1723-1794)
same as: educator, pedagogue

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