Paideia: Raise Them Up in the "Nurture and Admonition of the Lord"

It's a word that most people don't even know how to pronounce, let alone how to define.

And yet, it profoundly impacts the trajectory of our culture and our worldview.

Paideia.

In classical Christian education, it's a guiding principle for what kinds of students we hope to cultivate. For the ancient Greek polis, it was a guiding principle for what kinds of citizens they aimed to form.

And whether we realize it or not, our culture has a paideia of its own, and it's not really in line with what the abundant life to which Christ calls us and our children.

In this episode, our host and Head of School Ty Fischer talks with Ty Rallens and Devin O'Donnell, two leaders in the national classical Christian education movement and ACCS, about the central, critical concept of paideia.

This concept of forming the soul of a generation has guided organizations and cultures for centuries to pass on their most important values and traditions, in order that they may endure and define an era.

Learn how to identify the paideia of our culture and of schools, discover the hallmarks of a classical Christian education paideia, and be inspired to examine how you can lean into the concept of paideia in your family to, as Ephesians 2:4 says, "bring them up in the 'nurture and admonition' (Greek paideia) of the Lord."

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