A CLOSER LOOK Home Schooling Greco-Roman Style The term paidagogos, which is the basis for the English term “pedagogue,” in fact does not refer to a teacher per se. The paidagogos is the slave who acts as a child minder, walking little Publius back and forth to school, protecting him, and then helping him recite his alpha, beta, gammas when he gets home. When Publius comes of age, he can leave the nanny, the child supervisor, behind. This does not mean he would stop his education, because, again