was a major opponent of scholasticism, indicting it on various counts: it elevated arid disputation; it failed to develop a harmonious community of inquiry and learning; it treated dialectic as an end in itself and not as merely a means. Worst of all it failed to instil proper love of learning in its students, as was done by the great examples of antiquity, particularly the ‘three torches’, Cicero, Seneca, and Horace. Important moral writings include On His Own Ignorance and On Remedies for Fortune, Fair and Foul.