Are there any strong real-world examples of academic or educational institutions formally setting themselves up as political resistance centers (like Xavier's school in X-Men or Hogwarts in last books of Harry Potter)?
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Most madrasas are not subversive. They are just regular seminaries in Muslim countries.
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Do you count grander (to the point of irrelevance in day to day politics) projects like the Esalen Institute? esalen.org
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Emile Boutmy founded (now a leading French institution, in which most of the local elite has been trained, incl. most of our presidents) to educate a radically new elite following France's humiliating defeat in the 1870 war against Germany. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sciences_
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That looks student-led and informal. I mean something from the top-down, led by the president of the univ or something.
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