schoolmasters
Teachers with canes
Schoolmasters is the plural of schoolmaster, an old-fashioned term for a male teacher, especially the head of a school: The schoolmasters of that era ruled with strict discipline.
The word evokes Victorian classrooms and corporal punishment.
It can describe anyone who lectures or corrects in a pedantic manner: He schoolmastered us on proper etiquette.
One who teaches skills
- tutorIndividual instruction provider
- lessonUnit of teaching
- curriculumEducational program's content plan
- chalkSoft sedimentary writing stone
blackboard · lecture · examination · grammar · Latin · classics · recitation · drill
School's chief administrator
- principalChief school administrator
- disciplinarianStrict enforcer of rules
- caneStick for support
- detentionTemporary official holding
punishment · strict · stern · rules · obedience · order · classroom · governance
Trusted wisdom-giving advisor
- guideLeader or instruction book
- taskmasterStrict work supervisor
- disciplinarianStrict enforcer of rules
- authority figurePerson wielding official power
experience · life lessons · adversity · hardship · wisdom · correction · instruction · mastery
Of a prim era
- EtonElite English boarding school
- RugbySport's origin town
- gownLong formal garment
- preparatoryDone before something else
dormitory · chapel · traditions · Dickens · corporal punishment · fagging · house system · cricket
instructor
One who teaches skills
- tutorIndividual instruction provider
- lessonUnit of teaching
- curriculumEducational program's content plan
chalk · blackboard · lecture · examination · grammar · Latin · classics · recitation · drill · homework
headmaster
School's chief administrator
- principalChief school administrator
- disciplinarianStrict enforcer of rules
- caneStick for support
detention · punishment · strict · stern · rules · obedience · order · classroom · governance · hierarchy
mentor
Trusted wisdom-giving advisor
- guideLeader or instruction book
- taskmasterStrict work supervisor
- disciplinarianStrict enforcer of rules
authority figure · experience · life lessons · adversity · hardship · wisdom · correction · instruction · mastery · rigor
Victorian
Of a prim era
preparatory · dormitory · chapel · traditions · Dickens · corporal punishment · fagging · house system · cricket · usher
- educatorseducator, teachers, professor, instructor, tutor
- British educationprimary education, secondary education, national curriculum, sixth form, A-levels
- colonial workersblacksmiths, carpenters, cobblers, coopers, craftsmen
- education historyeducation reforms, educational reforms, medieval universities, schoolhouse, educational policies
- Historical Educationliteracy, pedagogy, tutors, teaching methods, classical education
- schooling historyhornbooks, schoolhouses, primers, slates, spelling bees
schoolmastersstudents
Those receiving instruction
pupils · schoolchildren · learners · schoolboys · schoolgirls