Martin Luther on role of the student in education
"The philosophers did the right thing, when they required their students to remain silent for five years, that is, not to express opinions lest they become rash in their judgments. Nor is it for nothing that certain times have been fixed in the universities for the granting of degrees. In Paris nobody is awarded a degree in theology who hasn’t worked in that field for ten years. In Erfurt only fifty-year-olds were made doctors of theology. Many took umbrage at my getting the doctorate at the age of twenty-eight, when Staupitz drove me to it. – November 9, 1538
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