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.
Okay so a huge chunk of what you're complaining about is just a greater degree of specialization within modern education And even that is absurd because being "educated" at all in that time period WAS AN EXTREME SPECIALIZATION
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Actually, I was not complaining about anything. Honestly. I see how people took it as a criticism of the modern university. But, actually, my whole intent was to dispel the myth of a “dark ages“.
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