Peter Ramus Quotes
Pierre de la Ramee, known as Peter Ramus, was a French humanist philosopher, logician, and educational reformer whose attempt to reorganize the liberal arts on a simplified and pedagogically transparent plan made him one of the most controversial thinkers of the sixteenth century. After scandalizing the University of Paris with the thesis that everything Aristotle had said was false, he produced a long series of textbooks of dialectic, rhetoric, grammar, and the mathematical sciences that swept Protestant Europe and shaped pedagogy from Cambridge to colonial Massachusetts. The quotes below are attributed to Peter Ramus, organized by topic.
Peter Ramus on Knowledge
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Attributed to Peter Ramus:
“Method is the soul of teaching.”
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Attributed to Peter Ramus:
“The arts of language and reasoning are one art, divided only for instruction.”
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Attributed to Peter Ramus:
“To know is to be able to teach.”
Peter Ramus on Truth
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Attributed to Peter Ramus:
“Whatever is true must be capable of being clearly displayed.”
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Attributed to Peter Ramus:
“Use, not authority, is the proper test of a doctrine.”