Word: paideia
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...used to be that an education in the liberal arts and sciences was devoted primarily to the development of an individual’s character. In some form or another, this was the central idea behind both the classical Greek notion of paideia and the 18th and 19th century German idea of Bildung. Getting a general education, on these models, was a matter of becoming sensitive to the demands of the “good life”—of learning what was admirable to aspire to and of developing the character to pursue such aspirations. Since then...
...speller once. They didn’t make any movies about me, though, since I was eliminated in round two of the New York City qualifying spelling bee and never made it to nationals. After winning my district spelling bee, I dutifully studied the PAIDEIA book of words until letters swam in my head like alphabet soup. To this day, I still don’t know what PAIDEIA stands for, but I studied it anyway, visualizing words as my teachers had advised. The day of the bee, my parents beamed with pride. My entire sixth grade class took...