schoolmastering

Educating young pupils

Schoolmastering is the work or profession of being a schoolmaster—teaching and managing students, especially in a traditional or old-fashioned style.

The term often carries connotations of strict discipline and formal instruction: He spent forty years schoolmastering in rural England.

It can also describe a manner of speaking or behaving that is pedantic or condescending: His schoolmastering tone irritated his colleagues.

traditional

chalkboard

Surface for dusty writing

elocution · classics · trivium · headmaster · prefect · satchel · inkwell · pedagogue · cane · slate

pedagogy

curriculum

Educational program's content plan

classroom · students · homework · lecturing · didactic · knowledge · teaching · tutoring · examination · grading

discipline

strictness

Inflexibility in enforcement

order · control · consequences · correction · standards · expectations · regulations · compliance · enforcement · rigor

mentorship

guidance

Advice for decisions

coaching · protégé · nurturing · inspiration · leadership · experience · influence · encouragement · instruction · molding

Opposites
educational role

schoolmasteringstudying

Deliberate learning effort

learning · pupilage · studentship · apprenticing · matriculating

manner of interaction

schoolmasteringdeferring

Postponing or yielding respectfully

submitting · following · obeying · collaborative learning · facilitating

professional activity

schoolmasteringmanual labor

Work done bodily

blue-collar work · unskilled work · freelancing · retirement · idleness

Family

schoolmasterish

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