Παιδεία
education
Translated by Jennifer Benedict5 Mar 2001Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] learning.1
"We believe that a genuine education [paideia] is not a subtlety politicked with words and with speech, but the healthy disposition of a prudent understanding and true opinions about good things and evil, noble things and shameful. Whoever then believes some things but teaches other things to those around him, he himself seems to be so far distant from education as he is also from being a good man."2
"We believe that a genuine education [paideia] is not a subtlety politicked with words and with speech, but the healthy disposition of a prudent understanding and true opinions about good things and evil, noble things and shameful. Whoever then believes some things but teaches other things to those around him, he himself seems to be so far distant from education as he is also from being a good man."2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Παιδεία· ἡ παίδευσις. παιδείαν ὀρθὴν εἶναι νομίζομεν οὐ τὴν ἐν τοῖς ῥήμασι καὶ τῇ γλώττῃ πολιτευομένην εὐρυθμίαν, ἀλλὰ διάθεσιν ὑγιᾶ νοῦν ἐχούσης διανοίας καὶ ἀληθεῖς δόξας ὑπέρ τε ἀγαθῶν καὶ κακῶν, ἐσθλῶν τε καὶ αἰσχρῶν. ὅστις οὖν ἕτερα μὲν φρονεῖ, διδάσκει δὲ ἕτερα τοὺς πλησιάζοντας, αὐτὸς ἀπολελεῖφθαι τοσούτῳ δοκεῖ τῆς παιδείας, ὅσῳ καὶ τοῦ χρηστὸς ἀνὴρ εἶναι.
Betacode
*paidei/a: h( pai/deusis. paidei/an o)rqh\n ei)=nai nomi/zomen ou) th\n e)n toi=s r(h/masi kai\ th=| glw/tth| politeuome/nhn eu)ruqmi/an, a)lla\ dia/qesin u(gia= nou=n e)xou/shs dianoi/as kai\ a)lhqei=s do/cas u(pe/r te a)gaqw=n kai\ kakw=n, e)sqlw=n te kai\ ai)sxrw=n. o(/stis ou)=n e(/tera me\n fronei=, dida/skei de\ e(/tera tou\s plhsia/zontas, au)to\s a)polelei=fqai tosou/tw| dokei= th=s paidei/as, o(/sw| kai\ tou= xrhsto\s a)nh\r ei)=nai.
Notes (2)
Linked from2 entries
- π854Παίδειοςfor a boy, of a boy; educationalA derivative [sc. adjective]. What pertains to education. "Token[s] of a career teaching boys, in old age limbs impeded by fatigue."
- π857Παιδίαchildhood, childishnessThus the Attic Greeks [say it] with a short final syllable and paroxytone accent, as applying to a plaything. Aristophanes in Wealth [writes]: "[sc. Play] here, with nuts" -- "What kind of game [is that]?" Eunapius…
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Revision history6 revisions · last 22 May 2016
- coding — David Whitehead
- expanded n.1 — David Whitehead
- another keyword; raised status — David Whitehead
- augmented notes; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- cosmetics — Catharine Roth
- Modified translation. — Catharine Roth
- Translated — Jennifer Benedict