-Agogue-A-Blog (#339)

“Agogue.” It’s that suffix thingy people use when they want to say someone is the best at something or a leader in some field. I think “pedagogue” is the most popular form of -agogueness. It means “teacher,” but it’s more than that. It means boring, by-the-rules, strict teacher. So, I suppose at one time, long ago, people might’ve run around the faculty room going… “Don’t be such a pedagogue.” It was supposed to be insulting. But, I disagree. I think agogue-ish words are beautiful. I like the way they sound. So, it upsets me that we don’t use them more. Okay, upsets is too strong. It aw-shucks-es me that we don’t throw the “agogues” around with abandon. Today, I break the rules…