schoolmaster
Traditional academy instructor
A schoolmaster is a male teacher, especially the head or principal of a school.
The term sounds old-fashioned in most contexts today, evoking images of stern Victorian educators with canes: The schoolmaster rapped the desk for silence.
It persists in British private school usage and historical fiction.
A schoolmaster can also be someone who instructs in a broader sense: Experience is a hard schoolmaster.
One who instructs others
- headmasterSchool's chief administrator
- pedagogueEducator, often pedantic
- instructorOne who teaches skills
- tutorIndividual instruction provider
professor · lecturer · preceptor · housemaster · usher · dominie · schoolmarm · teaching
Rigorous, without flexibility
punishment · rules · obedience · discipline · correction · authority · order · detention
Of a prim era
- DickensianGrimly poor, socially unjust
- old-fashionedBelonging to earlier times
- traditionalFollowing long-held customs
- antiquatedOld and outdated
bygone · historic · gown · quill · inkwell · slate · preparatory
teacher
One who instructs others
- headmasterSchool's chief administrator
- pedagogueEducator, often pedantic
- instructorOne who teaches skills
tutor · professor · lecturer · preceptor · housemaster · usher · dominie · schoolmarm · teaching · lessons
strict
Rigorous, without flexibility
rod · punishment · rules · obedience · discipline · correction · authority · order · detention · reprimand
Victorian
Of a prim era
- DickensianGrimly poor, socially unjust
- old-fashionedBelonging to earlier times
- traditionalFollowing long-held customs
antiquated · bygone · historic · gown · quill · inkwell · slate · preparatory
guide
Leader or instruction book
patron · counselor · formative · respected · wisdom · character-building · protégé · nurturing · encouragement
- horseshorse, mare, mares, stallion, stallions
- educatorseducator, teacher, teachers, professor, instructor
- school administratorsheadmaster, headmistress, superintendent, principal, vice principal
- school staffteacher, teachers, principal, professor, librarian
- School/Teachingheadmaster, governess, students, pupils, lessons
- schoolhousechalkboard, blackboard, desk, desks, chalk
schoolmasterpupil
Learner or eye opening
student · learner · schoolchild · disciple · mentee