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his hearers. For which reason it is said in Matthew vii, 29,
that ‘he was teaching them as one having power’. For
which reason even among the pagans Pythagoras and
Socrates, who were most excellent teachers, did not want
to write anything.
Had not medieval writing itself been so near to the oral mode of
teaching the idea of the written form as merely a gimmick and
not teaching, would not have been plausible.
With the splendid introduction that Hajnal provides for a
unified approach to the teaching of medieval writing as a
branch of rhetoric, and as co-extensive with grammar and
literary training, it is easy to tie the matter in for both earlier
and later phases of studies. For example, in the De oratore (I,
xvi) Cicero says that the poet is the rival and almost the equal