Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/08545_Field_TCGG T310.txt

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of teaching designed to train advanced students. This training
included in addition to knowledge of the liturgy, practical skills
associated with it. At the level of the choir or chantry school
one learned to read Latin and thus grammar was necessary in
order to recite and to copy properly the Latin texts. Grammar
served above all to insure oral fidelity.”

     This stress on oral fidelity was to the medieval man the
equivalent of our own visual idea of scholarship as involving
exact quotation and proof-reading. But the reason for this
state of affairs Hajnal clears up in his section on “methods of
teaching writing at the university.”

     By the middle of the thirteenth century the Faculty of
Arts at Paris was at a crossroads as regards methods.
Presumably, the growing volume of available books had made it