Paideia is a Greek word: it indicated the model of education in classical Athens, which provided that the education of young people was divided in two parallel paths: the "physical" Paideia which included looking after the body and its reinforcement, and the "psychic" Paideia, aimed at ensuring a harmonious growth of individuals in the polis, based on the universal values that made up the ethos of the greek people.

The spirit of citizenship and belonging in fact, constituted a fundamental element on which were founded the political-legal system of the Greek cities.

The physical education of young Athenians was based in a first stage in a rigorous training gym, according to the idea that a healthy body promotes a healthy mind and vice versa; on second stage, it was added the war trainig, the war being one of the activities considered more noble and virile for greek men; to finally arrive at the completion of training represented by the political training, heart of Athenian citizenship, and the climax towards which was addressed the entire educational process.

Today, knowledge is still the foundation of modern society, whose boundaries are not clearly limited to the horizon of the Greek polis. With Paideia today thus refers to the whole field of knowledge broadly understood, the knowledge is and should be a useful tool in everyday life (a perspective which already had in the Enlightenment of the '700), and not merely academic or reserved to few people. Per questo al nostro progetto abbiamo dato questo nome. For this reason we gave this name to our project.

Today, knowledge is still the foundation of modern society, whose borders extend beyond the narrow limits of individual states and / or nations. But knowledge is and should be a useful tool in everyday life (a perspective which already the Enlightenment of the '700 had), and not merely academic or reserved to few people.

For this reason we gave this name to our project: DM Paideia, founded on the experience accumulated by its promoter in training staff, wants to collect and to build a place where are made available the tools to everyone for building its own knowledge as possible wide, but at the same time, customized according to interests, curiosities and inclinations of everyone, based on the Cicerone's principle that suae quisque faber est fortunae (= everyone is builder of his own destiny).

Of course, given the nature of hobby, we don't pretend to cover all the knowledge, which is out of our reach, but we want to make available our knowledge and experience to contribute to the growth of persons and professionals.