[Oberon]

It is actually quite stagering how much knowlege was delayed due to the dark ages. Imagine where we would be if we did not lose those 1000 years or so.

Those years weren't lost. Plenty of good work was done during that time. It was during the Middle Ages that the church invented, for all practical purposes, the modern university.

[longtermmemmory]

Very true!

(however if you ask some arabs, I believe there is a "continuously in use" arab university in morroco. 600- 500 or so years. It is note worthy because it used Adobe in its constructions I believe. I hear they might finally be updating the classes after all these centuries)

[Hank Kerchief]

"the church invented, for all practical purposes, the modern university"

The root of Marxism, postmodernism, multiculturalism, and hedonism--academia. You blame it on the church, do you!?

;>)

Hank

[shekkian]

It was during the Middle Ages that the church invented, for all practical purposes, the modern university.

Such as Cornell, Brown, Columbia, etc ... where liberals are mass produced.

[RightWhale]

And the modern university the Postal Service.