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Hlodwig@lemmy.world 14 hours agoIf 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…
shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
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 does.
Hlodwig@lemmy.world 13 hours 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…
morrowind@lemmy.ml 9 hours ago
the main reason might just be whether the institution themselves claim they are educational