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debate, they frequently manifest an express concern for
simplification”:
Hooykaas makes less of Ramus’ talk about
‘induction’ than of his enthusiasm for usus , that is,
classroom practice or exercise, in establishing the
relationship of Ramus’ educational aims and procedures
to bourgeois culture. The break with older ways both
among burghers generally and among Ramists in
particular consisted more in an interest in pupil activity
than in anything we should recognize today as
experimentation or ‘induction’. These points Hooykas
makes are valid and follow recent lines of thinking in
discerning a certain intellectual fertility in the meeting of
the artisan and academic minds during the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries. (53)