Editing Reed College (section)

===Paideia===
Each January, before the beginning of second-semester classes, the campus holds an interim period called [[Paideia]] (drawn from the Greek, meaning 'education').<ref name="reed.edu">{{cite web|url=http://www.reed.edu/apply/student_life/favorite_traditions.html |title=Reed College &#124; Admission &#124; Reed College Admission Office |publisher=Reed.edu |access-date=November 13, 2011}}</ref> Originally conceived and approved by the faculty in 1968 for unstructured independent study, or "UIS", Paideia ran for the full month of January from 1969 to 1981, supervised by a committee of faculty, staff and students.<ref name="Quest27jan12">{{Citation  | last = Massey  | first = Sammie  | title = Ghosts of Paideia's Past  | pages = 1, 5  | newspaper = The Quest  | location = Reed College, Portland OR  | date = January 27, 2012  | url = http://www.reedquest.org/2012/01/ghosts-of-paideias-past/  | access-date = January 29, 2012  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130101182529/http://www.reedquest.org/2012/01/ghosts-of-paideias-past/  | archive-date = January 1, 2013  | url-status = dead  | df = mdy-all  }}</ref> This festival of learning takes the form of classes and seminars put on by anyone who wishes to teach, including students, professors, staff members, and outside educators invited on-campus by members of the Reed Community. The classes are intended to be informal, yet intellectual activities free of the usual academic pressure endemic to Reed.<ref name="reed.edu"/> Many such classes are explicitly trivial (one long-running tradition is to hold an [[underwater basket weaving]] class), while others are trivially academic (such as "Giant Concrete Gnome Construction", a class that, incidental to building monolithic [[gnome]]s, includes some content relating to the construction of pre-Christian [[monolith]]s). More structured classes (such as martial arts seminars and mini-classes on obscure academic topics), tournaments, and film festivals round out the schedule, which is different every year. The objective of Paideia is not only to learn new (possibly non-useful) things, but to turn the tables on students and encourage them to teach.

In his 2005 Stanford commencement lecture, [[Apple Inc.]] founder and Reed [[dropping out|dropout]] [[Steve Jobs]] credited a Reed [[calligraphy]] class taught by [[Robert Palladino]] for his focus on choosing quality typefaces for the [[Apple Macintosh|Macintosh]].<ref>{{cite web |author= Jobs, Steve | title= Commencement Address | work=Stanford Report | date=June 14, 2005 | url=http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html | access-date=April 9, 2006}}</ref> While the full calligraphy course<ref>{{cite web | url = http://web.reed.edu/reed_magazine/aug2003/features/dance_of_pen/ | title = The Dance of the Pen | access-date = October 6, 2011 | last = Schwartz | first = Todd | date = August 2003 | work = Reed Magazine | publisher = Reed College}}</ref> is no longer taught at Reed, Paideia usually features a short course on the subject in addition to the informal, weekly gatherings (currently held every Thursday night) of aspiring calligraphy enthusiasts.