--- title: "4 Education Paideia Quotes by 3 authors" description: "Browse 4 Education Paideia quotes by 3 authors. Discover the best Education Paideia sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3cb/cornel-west-708_bling_as-a-christian-i-got-something-the-world_176492.jpg" --- > [As a Christian, I got something the world didn't give me, the world can't take away, so I find joy that can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/as-a-christian-i-got-something-the-world-didn-t-give-me-the-world-can/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3cb/cornel-west-708_bling_as-a-christian-i-got-something-the-world_176492.jpg) > [In Greek, our word for play is paidia and the word for education is paideia, and it is very natural and right…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-goldstein/in-greek-our-word-for-play-is-paidia-and-the-word-for-education-is/) [Rebecca Goldstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-goldstein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/728/rebecca-goldstein-4026_children_in-greek-our-word-for-play-is-paidia-and_1515159.jpg) > [“In Greek, our word for play is paidia and the word for education is paideia, and it is very natural and right…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-goldstein/in-greek-our-word-for-play-is-paidia-and-the-word-for-education-is-2/) [Rebecca Goldstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-goldstein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/780/rebecca-goldstein-4026_adult-life_in-greek-our-word-for-play-is-paidia-and_2502062.jpg) > [“There Pericles says that the essence of the Athenian democracy is that any citizen, regardless of class or profession, should be able…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-mcevilley/there-pericles-says-that-the-essence-of-the-athenian-democracy-is/) [Thomas McEvilley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-mcevilley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e2f/thomas-mcevilley-42744_psychology_there-pericles-says-that-the-essence-of_2618623.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/education-paideia/#itemlist", "name": "Education Paideia Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "As a Christian, I got something the world didn't give me, the world can't take away, so I find joy that can never be reduced to anything. So I come into classroom on fire. I'm on fire for learning. I'm on fire for education, a paideia in the deepest sense of paideia, trying to get young people to shift from the superficial to the substantial, the shift from the bling-bling to letting freedom reign in their minds and hearts and souls.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Cornel West" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/as-a-christian-i-got-something-the-world-didn-t-give-me-the-world-can/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3cb/cornel-west-708_bling_as-a-christian-i-got-something-the-world_176492.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3cb/cornel-west-708_bling_as-a-christian-i-got-something-the-world_176492.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3cb/cornel-west-708_bling_as-a-christian-i-got-something-the-world_176492.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“As a Christian, I got something the world didn't give me, the world can't take away, so I find joy that can…” — Cornel West", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In Greek, our word for play is paidia and the word for education is paideia, and it is very natural and right that these words should be entangled at the root, together with our word for children, paides, which gave you your words pedagogy and pediatrician.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Rebecca Goldstein" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-goldstein/in-greek-our-word-for-play-is-paidia-and-the-word-for-education-is/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/728/rebecca-goldstein-4026_children_in-greek-our-word-for-play-is-paidia-and_1515159.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/728/rebecca-goldstein-4026_children_in-greek-our-word-for-play-is-paidia-and_1515159.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/728/rebecca-goldstein-4026_children_in-greek-our-word-for-play-is-paidia-and_1515159.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In Greek, our word for play is paidia and the word for education is paideia, and it is very natural and…” — Rebecca Goldstein", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“In Greek, our word for play is paidia and the word for education is paideia, and it is very natural and right that these words should be entangled at the root, together with our word for children, paides, which gave you your words pedagogy and pediatrician.14 What one tries to force into a child against its own nature will never come to good. A child’s natural form of behavior is play, and in our aim to educate, play should be honored and preserved for as long past childhood as can be. 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The reason any citizen would have the necessary ability had nothing to do with family lineage; it was simply the universal dispensation to citizens, in childhood, of paideia, the Hellenic education. Paideia was an ideology based on democracy, an attitude that was recovered and reconstructed in Europe from the Renaissance to the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. 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