Latin Verb  doceo


"docent"  is the 3rd person active plural of the Latin verb doceo.
Or they teach, inform, instruct, show, tell, etc.

 doceo , cui, ctum, 2, v. a. [root da; Zend. da, to know; strengthened,
dak-; Gr. didaskô; Lat. disco] , to teach, instruct, inform, show, tell,
etc.
(for syn. cf.: edoceo, perdoceo, erudio, praecipio, instituo).

Also French docere= to teach

From which Gilman got "docent."  However that does not mean that Boston
was the first place to develop the teacher/presenter/lecturer and group
model
in museums.

That would be another debate.

Lynne Teather,
Museum Studies
University of Toronto

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