Paideuma
Paideuma (from the Greek παίδευμα, derived from pais , 'child' or 'boy') denotes education , including self- education .
In the study Paideuma. Outlines of a doctrine of the soul and culture (1921), the cultural anthropologist Leo Frobenius assumes that every human culture represents a kind of organism and that this leads to a culture not being a mere collection of phenomena (e.g. works of art, techniques) but rather the manifestation of an attitude towards life that has been formed and shaped by their environment and their (self) education. Hence, each has a certain unique culture style . This is characterized by a certain mentality (soul situation), and its term Paideuma describes this.
Every single cultural phenomenon is always an expression of this Paideuma in its creation.
See also Oswald Spengler .