“On the authority of Augustine the liberal arts education would be revived by the universities of the High Middle Ages. When the preaching orders, notably the Franciscans and Dominicans, began to think about how preachers were to be trained, they carefully studied Augustine’s De doctrina christiana and tried to give their young friars exactly this kind of education. The Puritans, upon arriving in America, did the same thing, founding colleges and seeing to it that they gave the same kind of education in liberal arts which Augustine recommended” (Hughes Oliphant Old, The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures, Vol. II, p. 391).
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