Scholaticism
... authoritative texts, especially those of Aristotle and the church fathers. Its effect on the manner of learning in Medieval universities was that most of the successful students using the Scholastic method, became walking dictionaries. Students had to learn topics in discussion, lectures and debates. There was a lot of memorizing and the ability to think on your feet was stressed. Rhetoric, or persuasive argument, was the ultimate goal, that is, the ability to make an eloquent defense of the knowledge one had clarified by logic and dialectic. Some contemporary criticisms of this method, was that the Scholastic method was a heartless and presumptuous way to train minds and a threat to the church. Scholasticism is not favored in higher learning today. They urge scholars to go directly to sources in their original languages an...