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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milton: cambridge was a "feast of sour thistles and bramble and other sophistical trash" hobbes and leibniz didn't bother working at universities and heaped contumely on professors in france, degrees were freely sold
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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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