there have been long and glorious periods in european intellectual history where universities were held in profound contempt by the leading lights of their day lets review the university in early modernity
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more generally, universities were "purged by victorious sects, disordered by riotous students, and dominated by barren theological disputes"
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"curricula had stiffened with age, and the requirements of orthodoxy bound students and teachers alike" milton on English universities: "[They] took from young men their reason by use of some charms compounded of metaphysics, miracles, traditions, and absurd scriptures."
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when the royal society was founded anglican priests complained that it would undermine respect for existing universities
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If you want an extremely interesting read that will change how you think on things. Is important to the development of science and universities in the West. https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691165851/lost-enlightenment …
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> in france, degrees were freely sold "and this is different from now how?" springs to mind
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