While reading the manual "La filosofia nel Medioevo" (Philosophy in the Middleage) by Étienne Gilson, I ran into a consideration that attracted my attention:
Non c’è una delle sole opere di Tommaso d’Aquino […] che non sia uscita direttamente dal suo insegnamento o che non sia stata concepita espressamente in vista dell’insegnamento. La "Summa Theologiae" di Tommaso e il "Commento in quattro libri alle Sentenze" di Bonaventura […] sono esempi eccellenti di quanto vi può essere di fecondo per il pensiero dello stesso maestro in un alto insegnamento. (pp. 456-457)
trad.: Everyone of Thomas Aquinas‘ works comes out from his teaching or was expressly conceived for the teaching. Thomas’s "Summa Theologiae" and Bonaventura’s "Commentaries on the four books of sentences" are excellent examples of the fruitfulness and value of fine instruction for the teacher himself.
Teaching is „to give and to receive“, as in a gifts exchange.
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this really makes me think about the strange separation of teaching and research in most universities, where students are never supposed to do research "for real", and teaching should always be "sound" and follow programs, and objectives...
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