ABSTRACT
This chapter identifies Augustine’s normative view concerning what good professors do and describes Augustine as he teaches his student, Adeodatus. Augustine’s pedagogy of intellectual liberation begins with a professor who uses words to stimulate the student’s intellectual powers. While professors who use Augustine’s pedagogy of intellectual liberation make it possible for their students to assert created truth with confidence, these students do not do so dogmatically. Augustine’s pedagogy of intellectual liberation raises at least three challenges for professors who would like to initiate undergraduates into the culture of the intellect in Augustine’s spirit, even for professors who may not share his conception of uncreated truth. Those are: professors are servants of created truth; honesty characterizes the pedagogical relationship; and the subject is the student’s intellect. Pedagogy terminates with graduates, women and men who commence forth into the world possessing the refined capacity to connect the culture of the intellect with the vital issues arising in their lives beyond the Academy.
