Able Quote by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more nearly his…

— H. L. Mencken

Nothing is more tiresome than a superannuated pedagogue.

— Henry Adams

“pedagogue n. FORMAL or HUMOROUS a teacher, especially a strict or pedantic one. late Middle English: via Latin from Greek paidagōgos, denoting a slave…

— Angus Stevenson

The brains of a pedant however full, are vacant.

— Sir Fulke Greville

The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.

— George Berkeley

“Serious men," "grave persons" and "reasonable people"; favorite locutions of our sad world where egotism takes its word of command from pedantry”

— Victor Hugo

Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of…

— Henry Mackenzie

The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural; it is neither tedious nor frivolous; it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Pedants make a great rout about criticism, as if it were a science of great depth, and required much pains and knowledge--criticism however is…

— Horace Walpole

Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.

— Thomas Carlyle

Though pedantry denies, It's plain the Bible means That Solomon grew wise While talking with his queens.

— William Butler Yeats

Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!

— Franz Grillparzer

Pedantry can help financially, but not personally.

— Mak_786

Of course, we can distinguish between males and females; we can also, if we choose, distinguish between different age categories; but any more advanced…

— Michel Houellebecq

Pedantry and mastery are opposite attitudes toward rules. To apply a rule to the letter, rigidly, unquestioningly, in cases where it fits and in…

— George Polya