MarkRevan t1_iug6br1 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 1:53 AM

Reply to comment by Infinite-Storage-638 in TIL university of bologna in Italy is the world's oldest continuous operating university, founded in 1088. It was the first university in Europe and was founded as a school of law by four famous legal scholars by mankls3

There were "universities" in acient Egypt and acient Persia. But we don't really know what was going on there. We know people went there to be schooled. Scribes. Priests. Medics. Astronomers. Philosophers. But we don't actually know how. There were math schools in Babylon where a teacher taught a class of kids how to do basic equations on clay tablets. So organized schooling institutions were a thing for a very long time. Also the naming convention is all over the place. The Hekademia of Plato became the Academy. Aristotle' Lykeion became the high school.

mankls3 OP t1_iugcxwz wrote on October 31, 2022 at 2:45 AM

library of alexandria prob had some of that info but it was burnt

xWormZx t1_iuhcjac wrote on October 31, 2022 at 10:24 AM

Just so you know OP, I think people are downvoting you because while the library did burn, most of the information within it (especially the more important documents) were copied many times and likely survived. You can research more about it, but I think the gist is that basically anything that made it into the library was copied at least once.