Giambattista Vico's Ideas on
the Role of the Professor
- To select the best authors in the canon
- To mistrust by commentary, explication, analysis
- To stimulate students to direct and shape their minds more perfectly toward wisdom
- To inspire students with a love for learning
- To encourage students to create their own knowledge
- To instill in students a recognition of the communal and civic importance of education
- To make students aware of the encyclopedic and universal nature of true knowledge
- To inspire students toward a scholarly heroism which through the cultivation of moral and intellectual virtue seeks to uncover the image and likeness of the transcendent spirit within, their better nature
- To assist students to recognize the purposes of education are transcendent and self-less, and for the advancement and well-being of all humanity
- To demonstrate the collation and comparison of knowledge, how the whole hangs together, how the parts relate to the universe of knowledge
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