παιδαγωγός, παιδαγωγου, ὁ (from παῖς, and ἀγωγός a leader, escort), from Herodotus 8, 75 down; a tutor (Latinpaedagogus) i. e. a guide and guardian of boys. Among the Greeks and Romans the name was applied to trustworthy slaves who were charged with the duty of supervising the life and morals of boys belonging to the better class. The boys were not allowed so much as to step out of the house without them before arriving at the age of manhood; cf. Fischer under the word in index 1 to Aeschines dial. Socrates; Hermann, Griech. Privatalterthümer, § 34, 15ff; (Smith, Dict. of Greek and Rom. Antiq. under the word; Becker, Charicles (English translation, 4th edition), p. 226f). They are distinguished from οἱ διδάσκαλοι: Xenophon, de rep. Lac. 3, 2; Plato, Lysias, p. 208 c.; (Diogenes Laërtius 3, 92. The name carries with it an idea of severity (as of a stern censor and enforcer of morals) in 1Co_4:15, where the father is distinguished from the tutor as one whose discipline is usually milder, and in Gal_3:24 f where the Mosaic law is likened to a tutor because it arouses the consciousness of sin, and is called παιδαγωγός εἰς Χριστόν, i. e. preparing the soul for Christ, because those who have learned by experience with the law that they are not and cannot be commended to God by their works, welcome the more eagerly the hope of salvation offered them through the death and resurrection of Christ, the Son of God.

παιδαγωγός paidagōgos 3x a pedagogue, childtender, a person, usually a slave or freedman, to whom the care of the boys of a family was committed, whose duty it was to attend them at their play, lead them to and from the public school, and exercise a constant superintendence over their conduct and safety; in NT an ordinary director or minister contrasted with an Apostle, as a pedagogue occupies an inferior position to a parent, 1Co_4:15 ; a term applied to the Mosaic law, as dealing with men as in a state of mere childhood and tutelage, Gal_3:24-25

* παιδαγωγός , - oῦ , ὁ ( < παῖς , ἄγω ), a guide, guardian, trainer of boys, a tutor (disting. from διδάσκαλος , Xen ., Lac., 3, 1), usually a trusty slave: opp . to πατήρ , 1Co_4:15 ; fig ., of the Law, Papyri εἰς Χριστόν , Gal_3:24-25 .†

παιδαγωγός [page 473] In P Oxy VI. 930 (ii/iii A.D.) a mother writes to her son regarding his education, 18 ff. μελησάτω σοί τε καὶ τῷ παιδαγωγῷ σου καθήκοντι καθηγητῷ σε παραβάλλειν , let it be the care both of you and your attendant that you go to a suitable teacher, and concludes, 26 ff. ἄσπασαι τὸν τειμιώτατον πάιδαγωγόν σου Ἔρωτα , salute your highly esteemed attendant Eros. The passage is of importance as showing the position which the παιδαγωγός frequently occupied. He did not merely conduct the boy to school, but had a general charge of him as a tutor in the old sense of the word, until he reached maturity : cf. Gal_3:24 with Burton s note in ICC ad l. , and Clem. Paed. i. I where the ethical aspect of the παιδαγωγός is specially affirmed. In Artem. p. 74 .19 the word is associated with τροφός . The verb παιδαγωγέω occurs in P Oxy III. 471 .117 (ii/A.D.). For a subst. παιδικωρός , keeper of children, cf. BGU II. 594 .3 (A.D. 70 80), where it appears under the form πατικουρας : cf. the note in Olsson, Papyrusbriefe , p. 134.

παιδαγωγός παιδ-α^γωγός, οῦ, ὁ, [Etym: = παιδὸς ἀγωγός] "a boy-ward;" at Athens, "the slave who went with a boy from home to school and back again", a kind of "tutor", Hdt. , Eur. , etc.: —hence Phoenix is called the παιδαγωγός of Achilles, Plat. ; Fabius is jeeringly called the παιδαγωγός of Hannibal, "because he always followed him about", Plut.

παιδαγωγός, -oῦ, ὁ (παῖς, ἄγω), a guide, guardian, trainer of boys, a tutor (disting. from διδάσκαλος, Xen., Lac., 3, 1), usually a trusty slave: opposite to πατήρ, 1Co.4:15; figuratively, of the Law, π. εἰς Χριστόν, Gal.3:24-25.† (AS)