Paideia

Eugene F. Provenzo Jr

The origin of the term pedagogy is the ancient Greek word paideia . The Oxford English Dictionary defines the word as meaning “the sum of physical and intellectual achievement to which an individual or (collectively) a society can aspire; a society's culture.” Paideia in the fifth century BCE was synonymous with the term childrearing . In the fourth century BCE, it came to mean education as reflecting the ways of a culture. The idea that education reflects the ways of a culture—in other words, its values and beliefs—is a concept ...

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