1. Authority of Montaignevs.Rabel
He uses digestion as an analogy to reflect the worthlessness of book knowledge. ... What we know as book knowledge is thus completely irrelevant for it fails to look at the greater picture. ... Throughout Gargantua and Pantagruel, Rabelais emphasizes what seems to be the theme of the book: "know yourself."" ... As a matter of fact, Montaigne begins his entire treatise by emphasizing that "I, myself, am the subject of this book- (3). ... He encourages teachers to have a student's "virtue and sense of right and wrong shine through [his talk] and have no guide but reason- (48). ...
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