Paideia

Paideia was a term commonly used in the culture of ancient Greece. It means the rearing and education of the ideal member of the polis, the ancient Greek concept of life within urban boundaries. The approach to implementing paideia consisted of practical education coupled with subject-based schooling aiming for the successful socialisation of individual within the social ladder of the polis. LIberal arts like rhetoric, grammar and philosophy and scientifc disciplines like maths and medicine were a common staple of the paideia schooling system as well as physical activities such as wrestling. The ultimate goal of paideia was the crafting of men in possession of intellectual, physical and moral refinement. The rearing of a well-rounded Greek male was common throughout the Greek-speaking world, apart from Sparta.