Likewise, Rabelais emphasizes the importance of learning through Gargantua's letter to Pantagruel, in which he emphasizes his past experiences with humanistic studies, having in his prime "the reputation of the most learned man of [his] day- (157). ... 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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