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> After the trauma of the First World War, a new interest in the thinking and ideals connected with the nineteenth century humanistic tradition arose in Germany. Various attempts were made to renew this over one hundred year old tradition and make it relevant for a new era - a "humanism revival". Of these, the most thorough and systematic was Werner Jaeger's.
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> One needs a term to indicate not alone thesetraditional aspects of education, but somethingthat world culture itself will add to the process.
> The word for this larger conception of education isthe Greek term paideia, which Werner Jaeger reintroduced in his brilliant and exhaustive study of Greek education.
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Full text of "The Transformations Of Man (1957)"