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pedagogy
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    Griff sparred with Cherry, a mulatto who took up boxing as a matter of pedagogy, to teach others how not to speak about his white mother.†  (source)
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    Every afternoon after his siesta, Dr. Urbino sat with him on the terrace in the patio, the coolest spot in the house, and he had summoned the most diligent reserves of his passion for pedagogy until the parrot learned to speak French like an academician.†  (source)
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    And of course, that's one of the connections you've taught me about—between humanism and pedagogy.†  (source)
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    A quadrangle of postRevolutionary buildings of weathered brick bounded the upper end: other newer buildings, in the modern bad manner (the Pedagogic NeoGreeky), were scattered around beyond the central design: beyond, there was a thickly forested wilderness.†  (source)
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    So schools date from the Middle Ages, and pedagogy from the Enlightenment.†  (source)
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    I would rather talk to you — he is so pedagogical.†  (source)
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    Except that's not the whole thing—but merely a beginning, pedagogically speaking.†  (source)
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    He talked of pedagogics, and this was natural enough; but he had much to say of modern theories in Germany which they had never heard of and received with misgiving.†  (source)
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    A bright commercial calendar hung on the flaking whitewash —a dark-skinned mestizo girl in a bathing-dress advertised some gaseous water; somebody had pencilled in a neat pedagogic hand a facile and over-confident statement about man having nothing to lose but his chains.†  (source)
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    And what if humanistic pedagogy were to learn of this opportunity?†  (source)
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    This was a book written by an author who was both pedagogical and able to entertain the reader with anecdotes and astonishing problems.†  (source)
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    Yet even though Hans Castorp was prepared, as he had been all along, to lend him an ear, to consider his lectures worth listening to— quite noncommittally—and to let himself be pedagogically influenced, that in no way meant that, on the basis of a strictly educational point of view, he should desist from his enterprise, which still seemed to have an important impact, to be beneficial in some vague way—despite Madame Gerngross and her talk about a "nice little fleert," despite the businesslike personality of poor young Rotbein or the foolish trillings of Lady Overblown.†  (source)
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    And as for pedagogics, the conception of human dignity that sought to ban corporal punishment had its roots, to hear Naphta tell it, in the liberal individualism of the era of bourgeois humanism, in the Enlightenment's absolutism of the ego, which was about to atrophy and be replaced by a wave of newer, less namby-pamby social concepts, ideas of submission and obedience, of bridles and bonds, and since such things were not to be had without holy cruelty, flogging would thus be regarded with quite a different eye.†  (source)
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