Pedagogue 1100 Words You Need
Pedagogue 1100 Words You Need
/ˈped.ə.gɒg/ (noun)
a strict teacher who is not interesting, teacher, instructor, tutor, educator, schoolteacher, lecturer, pedantic teacher
“SHOUTS, SCREAMS, THREATS, curses, and stamping… and on special occasions even the crashing of furniture.” This is how famed American pianist and pedagogue Gary Graffman — and a host of other pupils — describe their lessons with Steinway Immortal Isabelle Afanasievna Vengerova (pronounced Vehn-geh-ROH-vah). But her popularity as one of the twentieth century’s greatest pedagogues was not built on those characteristics alone. “Madame,” as she was affectionately called by her students, was brutally honest, but consistently patient. She was dedicated to her students and maintained lifelong relationships with them.
Unlike many fin-de-siècle piano pedagogues who enjoyed a longstanding concert career before splitting their time between audiences and students, Madame began teaching early in life. Following her studies at the Vienna Conservatory, she moved to St. Petersburg, where she enrolled in the city’s conservatory as a pupil of Anna Essipova. Soon thereafter she was selected to serve as Essipova’s teaching assistant. It was also during this time that she taught daughters of the Russian nobility at the Smolny Institute. By her thirtieth birthday, she was quite active as a piano pedagogue and had already developed a rigid set of requirements for her students. Musicologist Vitaly Neumann reminds us that at this juncture of her career she was already “prepared to teach any work and could play the entire repertoire from memory” — from the early Viennese School composers to her contemporary Russian friends’ works (e.g., Glazunov, Borodin, et al.). Moreover, her pupils in Russia were to come to their first lesson with all their pieces memorized. (According to later students, this requirement was relaxed by the time she emigrated to the U.S.)
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Adjective: pedagogic
Adverb: pedagogically
Noun: pedagogy
Farsi: اموزگار، معلم، آموزگار علم فروش
