Education%20in%20the%20High%20Middle%20Ages

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Education in the High Middle Ages

• Listen to the recording of a fathers feelings
  about his sons education.
• Does the father value education- why or why not?

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Universities

• Paris Model vs. Bologna model- how different?
• Campus
• Degrees offered
• Length of study
• What was a class actually like? What was their
  school day like?

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Medieval Education

• Students enjoyed an unusual privilege at this
  time- what was it?
• Once you became well versed in a topic, what was
  your responsibility (HINT Think guilds here)

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St. Thomas Aquinas

• Patron saint of students and universities
• Born in 1226 (Jan. 28th is his feast day)
• Joined Dominican Order at age 17
• Studied at Naples, Paris, and Cologne earned a
  PhD at age 31
• Because of vernacular books he studied Aristotle
  and other Greek thinkers
• Regarded as one of the great Catholic thinkers of
  all time

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Quotes Aquinas quotes

• Beware of the person of one book.
• Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an
  infallible guide will believe whatever the Church
  teaches.
• Man should not consider his material possession
  his own, but as common to all, so as to share
  them without hesitation when others are in need.

• Happiness is secured through virtue it is a good
  attained by man's own will.
• In order for a war to be just, three things are
  necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign.
  Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful
  intention.
• There is nothing on this earth more to be prized
  than true friendship.

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3 Minute Philosophy Lesson

• YouTube - Three Minute Philosophy Thomas Aquinas
• According to Aquinas then, what is the
  relationship b/t faith and reason?