Pedagogue vs. Pedantic — What's the Difference?

A schoolteacher; an educator.

Excessively concerned with minor details or rules; overscrupulous

One who instructs in a pedantic or dogmatic manner.

Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for academic knowledge and formal rules

A teacher or instructor of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young.

Being overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning, like a pedant.

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.

Being showy of one’s knowledge, often in a boring manner.

A slave who led the master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.

Of or pertaining to a pedant; characteristic of, or resembling, a pedant; ostentatious of learning; as, a pedantic writer; a pedantic description; a pedantical affectation.

To teach.

Marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects

A slave who led his master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.

A teacher of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young; a schoolmaster.

One who by teaching has become formal, positive, or pedantic in his ways; one who has the manner of a schoolmaster; a pedant.

To play the pedagogue toward.

Someone who educates young people