Paideia
Definition & Meaning
Pronunciation /paɪˈdeɪ.ə/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Paideia is a noun meaning (Early Christianity, historical, education) An early model of Christian higher learning having theology as its chief subject.
Meaning
(Early Christianity, historical, education) An early model of Christian higher learning having theology as its chief subject.
More Meanings
- (US, education, frequently attributive) A pedagogical system focusing on providing children with a broad and balanced education.
- (Ancient Greece, historical, education) The epitome of physical and intellectual achievement to which an Ancient Greek citizen could aspire; societal and cultural perfection.
- (Ancient Greece, historical, education) An Athenian system of education designed to give students a broad cultural background focusing on integration into the public life of the city-state with subject matter including gymnastics, grammar, rhetoric, music, mathematics, geography, natural history, and philosophy
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include paedeutics, progymnasmata, academy, peripateticism, peripatetics, pedagogism.
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