When learning was monopolized by the monks in the Middle Ages, people specialized only in warfare and statecraft. And even these were not altogether free from the scholastic influence.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Medieval learning was really advanced.
Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.
Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.
I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.
Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do.
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.
I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose educational system had its roots dating back to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.