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Their family might, but the cities concerned themselves
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with the education of their boys.
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So paideia referred to the education of the young man,
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both mentally, but militarily --
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so you were taught to fight --
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and culturally; you might be taught other things about culture.
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You might even have some music training or something like that.
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The place where this took place was the gymnasium.
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Now a gymnasium doesn't mean what it means to in English,
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the gymnasium, like Payne Whitney over there.
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It actually comes from the Greek word for naked, gymnos.
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And the reason it was called 'the naked place' is