pai|dei|a

pai|dei|a
pai|dei|a «py DAY uh», noun.
the classical ideal of education; broad intellectual training and experience: »

Paideia, that famous, ambiguous word which meant both education and culture…“acquired the value of an absolute and became in a way an end in itself ” (James R. Newman).

[< Greek paideía training, education, culture, ultimately < paîs, paidós child]

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