Infinite-Storage-638 t1_iufv38i wrote on October 31, 2022 at 12:26 AM

I always thought the first universities were founded in the Muslim world. Maybe the use of the qualifier continuous makes your point valid. Maybe I'm just ignorant. Either way I'm refusing to Google.

MarkRevan t1_iug6br1 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 1:53 AM

There were "universities" in acient Egypt and acient Persia. But we don't really know what was going on there. We know people went there to be schooled. Scribes. Priests. Medics. Astronomers. Philosophers. But we don't actually know how. There were math schools in Babylon where a teacher taught a class of kids how to do basic equations on clay tablets. So organized schooling institutions were a thing for a very long time. Also the naming convention is all over the place. The Hekademia of Plato became the Academy. Aristotle' Lykeion became the high school.

mankls3 OP t1_iugcxwz wrote on October 31, 2022 at 2:45 AM

library of alexandria prob had some of that info but it was burnt

xWormZx t1_iuhcjac wrote on October 31, 2022 at 10:24 AM

Just so you know OP, I think people are downvoting you because while the library did burn, most of the information within it (especially the more important documents) were copied many times and likely survived. You can research more about it, but I think the gist is that basically anything that made it into the library was copied at least once.

cannot_care t1_iufyylp wrote on October 31, 2022 at 12:55 AM

Continuous, not first.

mankls3 OP t1_iug0iz0 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 1:07 AM

First in Europe though

Infinite-Storage-638 t1_iugzo8r wrote on October 31, 2022 at 7:08 AM

The reasons for these institutions being seen as "continuous" appear contentious to me. It may boil down to a simple matter of semantics.