## Etymology
From Greek paidagogia ('education, training'), from paidagogos ('teacher of children'), from pais (child) + agogos ('leader'), from agein ('to lead').

## AI Etymology
Pedagogy is from Greek paidagogia ('education, training'), from paidagogos ('teacher of children'), from pais (child) + agogos ('leader'), from agein ('to lead'). Important recorded forms include paidagogia (Ancient Greek), pais (Ancient Greek), and agein (Ancient Greek). Morphologically, the word preserves a built structure whose named elements carry the historical sense into English. The modern sense remains close to that composition, with the parts narrowing into a single lexical item. In current use it covers the method and practice of teaching. The wider family includes derived forms such as pedagogical and pedagogically and related words such as pedagogue, pedagogic, and pedagogics.

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