All of this amounts to an education that relies heavily on first-hand experience of the world, and formation of the intellect through images over abstractions. This approach may be summarized as "gymnopoetic," from the Greek "gymnos" for bare and "poeisis" for making, from which the word poetry is derived. These two concepts summarize the distinctive aspects of this approach to forming men.  It is a method that relies on forming a true image of the world and the self by work, by a first-hand "naked" encounter with creation through making beautiful things, and by beauty distilled in poetry and the other imaginative arts.