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.
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Peter Ramus on Knowledge
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Attributed to Peter Ramus:
“Method is the soul of teaching.”
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“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.”
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“Peter James wrote as recently as 2012, ‘scientists and archaeologists are still learning how to apply the radiocarbon method properly.”
Peter James in : Nick Collins - How Maritime Trade and the Indian Subcontinent Shaped the World (2022) -
“Centuries of Darkness was particularly critical of modern Egyptologists. ‘Early Egyptologists were usually more tentative about their chronology, continually revising their opinions in the light of fresh evidence. Sadly the study of Egyptian chronology seems to have become so ossified that it cannot question its fundamental assumptions, accepted more for familiarity than for any basis in fact.”
Centuries of Darkness quoted in : Nick Collins - How Maritime Trade and the Indian Subcontinent Shaped the World (2022)
Peter Ramus on Nature
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“Peter James in : Nick Collins - How Maritime Trade and the Indian Subcontinent Shaped the World (2022)”
Peter James wrote as recently as 2012, ‘scientists and archaeologists are still learning how to apply the radiocarbon method properly. -
“Centuries of Darkness quoted in : Nick Collins - How Maritime Trade and the Indian Subcontinent Shaped the World (2022)”
Centuries of Darkness was particularly critical of modern Egyptologists. ‘Early Egyptologists were usually more tentative about their chronology, continually revising their opinions in the light of fresh evidence. Sadly the study of Egyptian chronology seems to have become so ossified that it cannot question its fundamental assumptions, accepted more for familiarity than for any basis in fact.
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.”