"Whoever forbids the study of [the books of the previous generations] to anyone who is fit to study them...is blocking people from the door by which the [Divine] Law summons them to knowledge of God, the door of the theoretical consideration which leads to the truest knowledge of Him. Such an act [represents] extreme ignorance and [indeed] estrangement from God the Exalted."

- Ibn Rushd (d.1198)

https://www.academia.edu/27954473/Ibn_Rushd_and_Thomas_Aquinas_on_Education