To: blam
I thought you might be interested in this.
2 posted on
05/31/2004 6:39:18 AM PDT by
Bahbah
To: Grzegorz 246
First the pyramids, then the library and university at Alexandria. Egyptians were rather clever before they got the moslem disease.
To: Grzegorz 246
I find it interesting that the system of education by lecture has survived this far into the modern world. For most of human history books have been expensive and hard to obtain; but that's no longer so. Adhering to the lecture system, where the student is obliged to attend classes that may or may not be available when he needs them seems, to my mind, to be an outmoded and wasteful way of doing things.
5 posted on
05/31/2004 6:59:38 AM PDT by
Agnes Heep
(Solus cum sola non cogitabuntur orare pater noster)
To: farmfriend
6 posted on
05/31/2004 7:05:31 AM PDT by
TomServo
("D'oh!...I filled my pants, sir...In fact, I think I filled yours too.")
To: Grzegorz 246
14 posted on
05/31/2004 7:42:24 AM PDT by
Jaded
To: Grzegorz 246
well, so much for TRoP claims to have been the first culture to establish universities.
The PC crowd must be sooooo depressed.
21 posted on
05/31/2004 9:46:58 AM PDT by
King Prout
(the difference between "trained intellect" and "indoctrinated intellectual" is an Abyssal gulf)
To: narses; Aquinasfan
"A memo in ancient Greek and Coptic from UA's Faculty Sub-Committee on Multicultural Student Awareness were among the finds...'We need to get rid of codices by all of these dead white western males like Homer, Aristotle, Hippocrates, Theophrastus, and Andronicus of Rhodes...Hypatia would like a Women's Studies program next fall...And a group of students calling themselves the Fellowship for a New Age would like weekend seminars on channelling Isis, Osiris, and antediluvian Atlantean Masters of Wisdom...' "
To: Grzegorz 246
Honestly I'm a little disappointed that there isn't any "Polish joke".
Fascinating history of the library. Notes that the library was *not* burned by Julius Caesar, and in fact was around during Roman times, and was finally consigned to the flames by the Moslems:
43 posted on
04/21/2006 8:39:54 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: Grzegorz 246
Why not mention WHO destroyed the Library of Alexandria and WHY?????????
Could the Cult of Death misdescribed as the Religion of Peace have had something to with it?
45 posted on
08/17/2006 11:13:53 PM PDT by
rock58seg
(A minority of Republican RINO's are making a majority of Republicans look like fools.)
To: Grzegorz 246
Did they have any LGBT studies?
51 posted on
07/21/2012 7:14:18 PM PDT by
Rocky
(Obama is pure evil)
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