Thesis: the average 18 year old student in, say, York in AD 800 (the middle of the so-called "Dark Ages") had read more, knew more languages, was better trained in logic, could read more music, knew more mathematics and astronomy than the average student from a university today.
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This aesthetic cosplay bullshit is of no value, it's stuck around for so long because so much of education is just about cultural gatekeeping
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Arguably that is its primary function
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a similar thing could be said about the "logic" of the time being able to list and identify a dozen different syllogistic forms is a truly useless art, especially given that they form neither a complete mathematical logic nor a particularly useful guide to critical thinking
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and insisting that all students should be able to prove the soundness and completeness of first-order logic is just baffling it's a fascinating technical subject, sure. but it's a specialized bit of mathematics--of interest but little general applicability
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