Poets of old, like Plato, Homer, Shakespeare, and scholars, like Aristotle and Socrates, were regarded as very distinct people, generously gifted with abundance of knowledge and intellect. In the traditional society of learning, three professions, Medicine, Law and Divinity, are regarded as the apex of learning and individuals who acquire such knowledge are regarded as learned men. The fact that lawyers in Nigeria attribute learnedness to themselves alone is a misnomer, for apart from being a learned field of study, Medicine is also a noble profession. Poets were ranked as learned men, usually held in awe and seen as god's who bestride the field of knowledge like colossus of wisdom, men with pure mind who as Shakespeare would say, live above board.
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