How to Build
a Movement
An evening with Dr. Jason Pedicone, founder of The Paideia Institute, on the entrepreneur’s role in reviving the great cultural traditions of the West.
The humanities are not a relic to be preserved. They are a living inheritance capable of seeding new institutions, new careers, and a renewed culture.
Entrepreneurship
in the Cultural Arena
Most men learn to build businesses. Few learn to build cultures. Yet the institutions that have shaped Western civilization, including its schools, its great works, and its renaissances, were almost always founded by individuals who refused to let what they loved disappear.
Meriwether Academy is honored to host Dr. Jason Pedicone, co-founder and President of The Paideia Institute, for an evening of conversation on what it takes to build a movement around the things that matter. Drawing on his journey from Latin and Greek graduate student to the founder of one of the most successful classical-education nonprofits in the world, Dr. Pedicone will share the principles, missteps, and convictions behind a decade of cultural entrepreneurship, and the practical lessons every man can apply to his own work.
This is an evening for the ambitious, the curious, and the men who believe the great inheritance of the West is worth defending and extending. Whether you are a founder, a father, a teacher, or simply a man who refuses to be ordinary, you will leave with new conviction and new tools.
The Vision
How a passion for Latin and Greek became a national movement reaching tens of thousands. The audacity required to build something that did not yet exist.
The Architecture
The principles, hard tradeoffs, and patient labor behind a flourishing cultural institution. What every founder of a school, society, or company can learn from it.
The Inheritance
Why the humanities are not a luxury but a necessity. How men today can build careers, families, and communities around what they love most.
Non scholae sed vitae discimus.
We do not learn for school, but for life.
Dr. Jason Pedicone
Jason Pedicone, Ph.D.
Dr. Jason Pedicone holds a Ph.D. in Classics from Princeton University. In 2010 he co-founded The Paideia Institute with the conviction that the study of Greek and Latin, along with the great cultural traditions they preserve, could be revived for a new generation if it were taught with conviction, joy, and excellence.
What began as a small summer program in Rome has grown into a global organization offering classical-language immersion programs, K-12 outreach, fellowships, and one of the largest online classical communities in the world. Under his leadership, Paideia has reached tens of thousands of students and educators across six continents, building a genuine cultural movement at a moment when most assumed the humanities were in terminal decline.
He speaks and writes regularly on classical education, cultural entrepreneurship, and the relationship between the liberal arts and a meaningful life.
A Living Inheritance
For more than a decade, The Paideia Institute has worked to make the classical world accessible, joyful, and consequential, not as nostalgia but as a foundation for the future.
The Paideia Institute
The Paideia Institute is a 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit dedicated to promoting the study and appreciation of the classical humanities. Through immersive language programs in Rome, Paris, and Athens; K-12 educational outreach; online courses; fellowships; and a vibrant publishing arm, Paideia has built one of the most influential platforms for classical learning in the modern world.
What sets it apart is not its scale but its spirit: a refusal to let the great traditions of the West become museum pieces. Greek and Latin, in Paideia’s hands, remain living languages. The thinkers of antiquity remain conversation partners. And the question of how to live well, asked by Aristotle and answered anew by every generation, remains open and urgent.
An Evening of Substance
Wine and conversation, a serious talk, and a discussion among men who care about what is being built, and what is worth building next.
Join Us for an
Unforgettable Evening
Seating is limited. This is an evening for men who take seriously the work of building: businesses, families, institutions, and a culture worth inheriting. We hope you will join us.
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