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It's always been women in STEM. (mander.xyz)
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[–] 15 points 11 months ago (13 children)

The oldest continuously operating university is in Bologna. The one that the post is about was actually a mosque and did not become a university until less than a century ago.

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    It was common for religious institutions to also be places of higher learning during this era.

    The Nalanda Mahavihara (Buddhist grand monastery) is regarded as world's oldest residential university. It is in present day India, though not operating today. Scholars such as Xuanzang (known as Mokṣadeva in Sanskrit) travelled from China (in his case Luoyang) to Nalanda for his studies and returned with thousands of sutras which were then translated. It was knowledge transfer through such universities during the Tang dynasty that brought the number system we use today (originally described in the Bakhshali manuscripts and further refined by Aryabhata and Bhramagupta) to China.

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  • [–] 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

    Al-Qarawiyyin is recognized by UNESCO and Guinness as the world's oldest continually running institution of higher learning.

    We can apply a purity test here (ie. what qualifies as a university) but.. why except for pedantry? No matter how you frame it, it doesn't take away from the scale or impact of the institution itself.

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  • [–] -4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    If you want to go that way, a lot of places could qualify as oldest university, some christian monasteries way older than al-qarawiyyin are still inactivities and the main focus of monasteries is to learn and apply "god" teachings...

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

    I wonder why UNESCO and Guinness do not recognize those Christian monasteries then. Perhaps they did not confer degrees or certificates of scholarly competence (ijazahs) the way that al-Qarawiyyin did.

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  • [+] -6 points 11 months ago

    My nephews gets stars stickers when he successfully learn something, does it qualify as degrees and its school qualify for university?

    UNESCO can say whatever they want, it never have been a university in the sense that 90% of the population would not identify it as a university... An ersatz of university? Yeah sure if it make you feel better...

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  • [+] -9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Honestly feminists need to learn how to turn off the comment section, every time they post A WOMAN ACTUALLY DID X FIRST, the comment section is there to ruin the delusion

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    Good advice. Feminist Hivemind Ancillary 6969 here, and yeah, all we do is post junk history and try to be deluded.

    Most of us don't give a shit who did what first and what was in their pants, I just want free tampons and less rape.

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