I found an interesting paragraph in an article that I am reading on 
andragogy and pedagogy.  The whole article may be found at: 
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JOTS/Summer-Fall-2000/holmes.html but 
the text of the paragraph I liked is below.

"Mohring (1989) took issue with both andragogy and pedagogy. She contended 
that the terms andragogy (implying the education of adults) and pedagogy 
(meaning the education of children) are etymologically inaccurate. 
Although pedagogy is derived from paid, meaning "child," from antiquity it 
has also stood for education in general-without reference to learners' 
ages. Andragogy is derived from aner, meaning adult male and not adult of 
either sex, therefore excluding women. In view of efforts to purge English 
of sexist words, she proposed the use of a new term, teliagogy. Based on 
the Greek teleios, meaning "adult," it would include both sexes. "

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