paideia English

Meaning paideia meaning

What does paideia mean?

paideia noun

— (Ancient Greece, historical, education) An Athenian system of education designed to give students a broad cultural background focusing integration into the public life of the city-state with subject matter including gymnastics, grammar, rhetoric, music, mathematics, geography, natural history, and philosophy

— (Ancient Greece, historical, education) The epitome of physical and intellectual achievement to which an Ancient Greek citizen could aspire; societal and cultural perfection.

— (Early, _, Christianity, historical, education) An early model of Christian higher learning having theology as its chief subject.

— model of Christian higher learning