ETYM French pédagogue, Latin paedagogus, Greek; pais, paidos, a boy + agein to lead, guide. Related to Page a servant, Agent.
1. One who by teaching has become formal, positive, or pedantic in his ways; one who has the manner of a schoolmaster; a pedant.
2. A teacher of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young; an instructor.
3. (Ancient Greece) A slave who led his master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.
Schoolteacher, pedant.