Paideia: Reclaiming the Tools of Reason and Forming Character

This text provides a profound analysis of the classical educational ideal—paideia, understood as a holistic process of shaping reason and character. The author argues that contemporary education, often reduced to a catalog of loosely defined subjects, loses sight of its original purpose: the development of a fully human person. Citing Werner Jaeger and the structure of the seven liberal arts (trivium and quadrivium), the article demonstrates how Greek, Roman, and Hebrew traditions have intertwined into the foundation of Western civilization. In the midst of the crisis of the modern school, the text proposes a return to proven learning tools such as logic, rhetoric, and grammar, which allow young people not only to absorb knowledge but, above all, to think independently. This is a manifesto for the recovery of meritocracy and a moral intellectual code in the educational process.