paideian.
/pʌɪˈdeɪə/, U.S. /paɪˈdeɪə/ 1. Ancient Greek History. Education, upbringing; spec. an Athenian system of instruction designed to give pupils a rounded cultural education, esp. with a view to public life. Hence: the sum of physical and intellectual achievement to which an individual or (collectively) a society can aspire; a society's culture.The principal subjects of the classical paideia were rhetoric, grammar, mathematics, music, philosophy, geography, natural history, and gymnastics.
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society > education > [noun]
informationa1387
instructionc1425
eruditionc1460
culture?1510
education?1533
training1537
trainment1570
train1581
manurance1594
nurturing1629
schoolcraft1631
manurementa1639
manuring1726
schoolmastering1830
paideia1892
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > branch of knowledge > humanistic studies > [noun] > polite learning, culture > in particular society
culture1860
paideia1892
cultural1904
1875 F. Hueffer tr. E. Guhl & W. Koner Life Greeks & Romans 196 The education proper of the boy (παιδεία) became a more public one, while the girl was brought up by the mother at home.]
1892 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Mar. 233 Paideia, ‘chastening’, etymologically means the treatment or training proper for a boy.
1904 S. H. Butcher Harvard Lect. on Greek Subj. ii. 124 The Greek Paideia (παιδεία) in its full sense involves the union of intellectual and moral qualities. It is on the one hand mental illumination, an enlarged outlook on life; but it also implies a refinement and delicacy of feeling, a deepening of the sympathetic emotions, a scorn of what is self-seeking, ignoble, dishonourable—a scorn bred of loving familiarity with poets and philosophers, with all that is fortifying in thought or elevating in imagination.
1967 Listener 17 Aug. 201/3 Marx is..built into my intellectual experience, what the Greeks would have called my paideia.
1991 S. Hornblower Greek World (BNC) 94 [Corinth] had no ideology to offer, nothing that is like Athenian paideia or Spartan agoge, ‘culture’ and ‘discipline’ respectively.
2. U.S. Education. A system of teaching designed to provide children with a broad and balanced education. Frequently attributive.
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society > education > teaching > [noun] > other methods of teaching
demonstration1742
bear-leading1766
royal road1793
tachydidaxy1846
object teaching1851
object system1862
methodic1864
community education1873
methodics1883
maieutics1885
type-system1901
direct method1904
spoon-feeding1905
play method1914
playway1914
project method1916
active learning1919
study skills1924
skit1926
free activity1929
hypnopaedia1932
sleep-teaching1932
chalk and talk1937
show-and-tell1941
demo1945
naming of (the) parts1946
team teaching1949
teleteaching1953
programming1954
audio-lingualism1961
immersion1965
dem1968
open learning1970
suggestopaedia1970
suggestopedy1970
distance learning1972
fast-tracking1972
paideia1982
tutorial1984
m-learning2001
1982 M. J. Adler (title) The paideia proposal: an education manifesto.
1989 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 26 Nov. 1 c At Dumas Elementary School..they'll hire part-time teachers of Spanish, mathematics and fine arts as part of the school's Paideia program, a classical-learning experiment developed by philosopher Mortimer Adler.
2002 News & Observer (Raleigh, N. Carolina) (Nexis) 25 Mar. b1 When Adler, a professor and education reformer, introduced Paideia, the approach was criticized by many for its strict focus on Western, white culture. It now includes teachings and literature more representative of diverse cultures. Paideia emphasizes learning through student research and discussion. More than 40 schools in 12 states use the Paideia three-tier teaching method.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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