Can you interpret:"Today´s cultivated people duty is to sow doubt, no longer to harvest certainties"?

Question

This is a quotation from Norberto Bobbio that I got from an Umberto Eco book.
(Any error in translation is mine, please forgive or correct if you know the original)

I posted it originally on "education" but I think that I´ll get a better audience here....

Answer 1

No. Skepticism is a positive trait, and not merely a sense of doubt, but a mind questing for the truth. It is based on reason and a love of the truth. I don't think that a simple sense of well developed doubt, which works so well for those of Post Modernest ilk, is a worthy goal for the life of the mind.

PS. Usually love Eco's work

Answer 2

Sounds similar to:
Science is proof without certainty and religion is certainty without proof.
Religious people have given up looking for evidence, they simply believe anything.
Intellectuals, however, question everything in the quest to know "why is it so?". They are the cultivated people.
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Answer 3

Eco's always shown good sense. The quote doesn't need interpretation.