A plea in favor of scientific orality

Abstract

In the first class I had in my Philosophy degree, the professor welcomed us with a somewhat provocative reflection.
He maintained that if what we were really interested in studying was philosophy, then we were in the wrong place.
He argued that what we would study in the classrooms would be, at most, rudiments of the history of philosophy;
that with luck we would learn to read and that, if fortunately we had some gift for writing,
we should be willing to sacrifice it in order to pass the thesis essential to obtain a bachelor's degree.