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Re:Interest surges in top colleges, while struggling ones sc... by mcguire on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @04:37PM (#26243215)
"We were teaching kids to read, ethics, morals, long before we had PhDs."

I think I'd like some evidence for that.

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Re:Interest surges in top colleges, while struggling ones sc... by read_if_gay_ on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @06:37PM (#26244557)
Is that not obvious? Via the ancient Greek schools of philosophy for example?
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Re:Interest surges in top colleges, while struggling ones sc... by mcguire on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @10:47AM (#26251132)
IIUC, the literacy rate was for most of the Mediterranean world was around 20%, specifically excluding slaves and women. Which is pretty high, actually.

The Greek schools of philosophy were taught by the equivalent of PhDs.

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Re:Interest surges in top colleges, while struggling ones sc... by yTh0 on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @06:04PM (#26244226)
The first PhD was awarded in France in 1150 CE.

Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and even Pre-Columbus America had complex cultural customs, art, math, engineering, medicine, language they handed down generationally.

University as we know it is a relic of Medieval European tradition.

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Re:Interest surges in top colleges, while struggling ones sc... by mcguire on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @10:51AM (#26251212)
I've seen the literacy rate of medieval Europe estimated at 10%. Ethics and morals were being taught roughly the same way they are now: you believe what your parents believed. Medieval medicine was being taught from translations of Arabic copies of Galen.
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