Quotes About Paideia

La televisión no es sólo instrumento de comunicación; es también, a la vez, paideía , un instrumento «antropogenético», un medium que genera un nuevo ánthropos , un nuevo tipo de ser humano.

We are increasingly abandoning Aristotle's view of paideia—learning and habituating virtues for personal flourishing and the common good—in favor of technical-instrumental education leading to private wealth for some, argues philosopher Richard Eldridge: "to abandon the cultivation of virtues and instead to teach only in order to produce measurable outcomes is to capitulate to an individualist culture of instrumental control and private satisfactions."44