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For here by nurture, we are to understand, as the Greek word paideia signifies, that discipline which parents ought to exercise over their children, to prevent their falling into, or continuing in any wicked course.
Private Thoughts Upon Religion and a Christian Life; to which is Added the Necessity and Advantage of Frequent Communion. Volume I. 1637-1708 1834
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Humanism and Theology (Milwaukee, 1943), which has thrown light upon the close connection between classical theology and the concept of paideia, that is, humanistic education.
RENAISSANCE HUMANISM NICOLA ABBAGNANO 1968
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3 A question: Why don't you bother with the term "paideia" at all?
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The Greeks of old had a different idea that they called paideia.
Thomas Moore: Redefining Education: Cultivating the Soul 2010
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The sense is that of a deliberate training, similar to Greek paideia.
Rei Terada 2008
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The stages of this paideia are moral philosophy dialectic natural philosophy theology magic
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Copenhaver, Brian 2008
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The polis itself was thought to be an educational community, expressed by the Greek term paideia.
Civic Education Crittenden, Jack 2007
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This meant more than just education, which is how paideia is usually translated.
Civic Education Crittenden, Jack 2007
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Together paideia and arête form one process of self-development, which is nothing other than civic-development.
Civic Education Crittenden, Jack 2007
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Olympiodorus hands his students the shards and tesserae that could amount, in the appropriate number and arrangement, to classical paideia.
Olympiodorus Wildberg, Christian 2007
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