Teachers as artisans, not philosophers
But at what time a man may be sayde to have attayned so farre foorth the the use of reason, as sufficeth to make him capable of those lawes, whereby he is then bound to guide his actions; this is a great deale more easie for common sense to discerne, then for any man by skill or learning to determine: even as it is not in Philosophers, who best knowe the nature both of fire and of golde, to teach what degree of the one will serve to purifie the other, so well as the artisan, who doth this by fire, discerneth by sense when the fire hath that degree of heat which sufficeth for his purpose.
- Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie, 1.6.5
