Sunday, October 26, 2008
Creation of University
The section we read about education and universities caught my attention this week partially because I am a education major. I thought it was quite interesting how similar everything has remained since their creation in 1000-1200. All the words have evolved but have very clear Latin roots that are quite recognizeable. Those are things we as university students say every day and somewhat take for granted, not realizing the history behind them. I also thought that the church's influence as an intrical part of the founding of the higher education was unique from the way other schools were founded. The whole point back then was to get people educated that partained to the church in some way. The story of the university after that sounds like it could be happening now nothing is really that different. Maybe the police would do less killing but who knows...
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Two really big changes, Kara. First was the invention of printing, which in turn led to textbooks being put into students' hands instead of them having to rely on the lecturer (literally "reader").
The second was the secularization of the universities--the creation of universities by the State rather than by the Church.
A third came during industrialization, but that takes us outside the bounds of this course.
I think that there are some very interesting roots to the creation of Universities. But we have come a very long way from those first institutions. After all as a woman I am allowed to attend and I dont have a church telling me what to learn. Now there are still universities that are linked to religous organizations and there are nothing wrong with these schools. Many of them provide a level of education that is worth every penny you would spend.
Take for example BYU in Utah is a premire school of the arts. Even the most talented musicians have to fight for a chance to be apart of their program. And being a college level musician is not easy but you have to just about be a protege to get into their program. There is nothing wrong with this but as a student you can still get a wonderful music and arts education at our school and many others around the country.
Also the admittance of females to higher learning has impacted our culture and many other things. The events surrounding women in higher learning are definately a different course but it is important to realize that the culture of universities has come a very long way since their inception by the Catholic Churches in medival europe.
I do realize there were changes since that time. Obviously we have moderinized. I meant more ideally rather than structurally. Even the creation of universities by state rather than church is a big change but it is not universal. I did not think about the change that lindsay brought, of females being addmitted to higher education. My point really was that the universities were more modern right off the bat than I suspected.
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