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Vol. 98 Anno 2021 --> Fasc. 4
Rigans Montes de Superioribus:
Divine Wisdom in Teaching and Learning
Pubblicazione
Inverno 2021
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Rigans montes de superioribus suis, de fructu operum tuorum satiabitur
terra. «You water the mountains from your chambers; from the
fruit of your labor the earth abounds». These opening words of the
Inaugural Lecture of St. Thomas Aquinas at the University of Paris in
1256 are drawn from Psalm 104. «The king of the heavens, the Lord,
established this law from all eternity, that the gifts of his providence
should reach what is lowest by way of things that are in between».
With these words, Aquinas introduces the theme of the relationship
between the teacher of divine wisdom and its students. The minds of
teachers, he states, are like the mountains upon which the rain falls,
and, like the mountains, teachers are drenched by the wisdom of God
that pours down upon them from the heavens above. Thus it happens
that, through the mediation of teachers, divine wisdom flows into the
fertile soil of the minds of students.
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