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peter ramus and the educational reformation of the sixteenth century

by frank pierrepont graves

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...reform the work of the university in general and the arts faculty in particular. He put in several years forgetting much of what he had learned at the College of Navarre and in recon- structing all the liberal arts. He especially en- THE BREACH WITH ARISTOTLE 2p deavored to continue his reform in dialectic, and foresaw in the application of this subject to the other liberal arts the keystone to the entire arch, and at that point he centered the structure opposed to Aris- totle and the medieval philosophy founded upon him. In this progressive step toward real human- istic study and fruitful logic he probably had as guides such writings as the Sapiens (1522) and De Disciplinis (1531) of Vives, 1 w r hich must have been well known to him, and the lectures on dialectic of Sturm, 1 who had just completed his seven years of teaching at Paris. The masters in the College of Ave Maria, then, made their lectures attractive and practical by seeking illustrations and models of the operations of...