Random Fact #5

Random Fact #5: Paideia is a "system of education and training in classical Greek and Hellenistic (Greco-Roman) cultures that included such subjects as gymnastics, grammar, rhetoric, music, mathematics, geography, natural history, and philosophy. In the early Christian era the Greek paideia, called humanitas in Latin, served as a model for Christian institutions of higher learning, such as the Christian school of Alexandria in Egypt, which offered theology as the culminating science of their curricula.The term was combined with enkyklios ("complete system," or "circle") to identify a large compendium of general education, hence 'encyclopaedia.'"

Source: Encyclopedia Britannica (2008), as found on dictionary.com

Note: I saw the word "paideia" in an article I was looking at while doing research and said something along the lines of "wut." I don't like seeing words and not knowing what they mean. So I looked it up. Because I'm Batman crazy an English major.