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where teenagers pay six figures to be told they're not ready for the real world yet.
means institutions that grant degrees by combining research faculty, tuition, and just enough bureaucracy to make everyone forget the original point of learning.
from from latin universitas, meaning 'the whole' — originally referring to a guild or corporation of students and masters, not a place, but a group of people bound by a common purpose.
oldest survivinguniversity of al-qarawiyyin, founded 859 ad
bologna claimeurope's oldest, founded 1088, still operating
tenure origininvented to protect unpopular ideas from firing squads
harvard's ageolder than calculus and the united states