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Period: 100 to
Higher education by Budhists flourished in India
The first millennium and the few centuries preceding it saw the flourishing of higher education at Nalanda, Takshashila University, Ujjain, & Vikramshila Universities. Amongst the subjects taught were Art, Architecture, Painting, Logic, mathematics, Grammar, Philosophy, Astronomy, Literature, Buddhism, Hinduism, Arthashastra (Economics & Politics), Law, and Medicine. Each university specialized in a particular field of study. Takshila specialized in the study of medicine -
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Monasteries of the Roman Catholic Church
monasteries of the Roman Catholic Church were the centres of education -
Jan 1, 605
Exam system introduced in China
In 605 AD, during the Sui Dynasty, for the first time, an examination system was explicitly instituted for a category of local talents. The merit-based imperial examination system for evaluating and selecting officials gave rise to schools that taught the Chinese classic texts and continued in use for 1,300 years, until the end the Qing Dynasty, being abolished in 1911 in favour of Western education methods -
Jan 1, 1088
University of Bologna,
University of Bologna, founded in 1088 -
Jan 1, 1160
University of Paris
University of Paris founded in 1160 -
Jan 1, 1179
Free education for the poor by Church
Free education for the poor was officially mandated by the Church in 1179 -
Period: Jul 27, 1299 to
During Ottoman Empire, Bursa and Edirne became centres of learning
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Jan 1, 1400
Sankore University, Mali
15th and 16th centuries, the town of Timbuktu in the West African nation of Mali became an Islamic centre of learning with students coming from as far away as the Middle East. The town was home to the prestigious Sankore University and other madrasas -
Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
Education gets widespread
Period between the 16th and 18th centuries saw education become significantly more widespread -
John Amos Comenius promulgated a reformed system of universal education
In Central Europe, the 17th century scientist and educator John Amos Comenius promulgated a reformed system of universal education that was widely used in Europe.
This growth resulted in increased government interest in education -
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Education gets widespread in Japan
under the Tokugawa regime (1600–1867) in Japan, learning had become widespread By the end of the Tokugawa period, there were more than 11,000 such schools, attended by 750,000 students -
Period: to
Widespread education in India
Indigenous education was widespread in India in the 18th century, with a school for every temple, mosque or village in most regions of the country.[61] The subjects taught included Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Theology, Law, Astronomy, Metaphysics, Ethics, Medical Science and Religion. The schools were attended by students representative of all classes of society -
Establishment of the first chair of pedagogy at the University of Halle in Germany
there was an increasing academic interest in education and the first attempts to create what might be considered academic rationales for teaching methods. This led, in the 1770s, to the establishment of the first chair of pedagogy at the University of Halle in Germany. Contributions to the study of education elsewhere in Europe included the work of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi in Switzerland and Joseph Lancaster in Britain -
University of Berlin
University was founded in Berlin in 1810 which became the model for many research universities -
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Emphasis on Elementry Education in Europe
In the late 19th century, most of West, Central, and parts of East Europe began to provide elementary education in reading, writing, and arithmetic, partly because politicians believed that education was needed for orderly political behavior. As more people became literate, they realized that most secondary education was only open to those who could afford it. Having created primary education -
Period: to
Growth of education in Japan
Elementary school enrollments in Japan climbed from about 40 or 50 percent of the school-age population in the 1870s to more than 90 percent by 1900 -
Modern secular education system starts in France
creation of modern Republican school (l'école républicaine) in France by requiring all children under the age of 15—boys and girls—to attend. He also made public instruction free of charge and secular (laïque). -
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New directions in education in Italy and Germany
In the 20th century, new directions in education included, in Italy, Maria Montessori's Montessori schools; and in Germany, Rudolf Steiner's development of Waldorf education -
Period: to
Increased literacy levels in the world
Nowadays some kind of education is compulsory to all people in most countries. Due to population growth and the proliferation of compulsory education. percentage without any schooling decreased from 36% in 1960 to 25% in 2000. -
Al-Azhar University, Cairo
Al-Azhar University, founded in Cairo, Egypt in 975, was a Jami'ah ("university" in Arabic) which offered a variety of post-graduate degrees, had a Madrasah and theological seminary, and taught Islamic law, Islamic jurisprudence, Arabic grammar, Islamic astronomy, early Islamic philosophy and logic in Islamic philosophy -
Bimaristan medical schools
9th century, Bimaristan medical schools were formed in the medieval Islamic world, where medical diplomas were issued to students of Islamic medicine who were qualified to be a practicing Doctor of Medicine -
Period: to Dec 31, 1299
House of Wisdom in Baghdad
The House of Wisdom in Bagdad was a library, translation and educational centre from the 9th to 13th centuries. Works on astrology, mathematics, agriculture, medicine, and philosophy were translated. Drawing on Persian, Indian and Greek texts—including those of Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, Hippocrates, Euclid, Plotinus, Galen, Sushruta, Charaka, Aryabhata and Brahmagupta—the scholars accumulated a great collection of knowledge in the world, and built on it through their own discoveries. -
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Academy of Gundishapur
During the 6th and 7th centuries, the Academy of Gundishapur, originally the intellectual center of the Sassanid empire and subsequently a Muslim centre of learning, offered training in medicine, philosophy, theology and science. The faculty were versed not only in the Zoroastrian and Persian traditions, but in Greek and Indian learning as well -
Period: to
Carolingian Renaissance in Europe
During the reign of Charlemagne, King of the Franks from 768 – 814 AD, whose empire united most of Western Europe for the first time since the Romans, there was a flowering of literature, art, and architecture known as the Carolingian Renaissance. Brought into contact with the culture and learning of other countries through his vast conquests, Charlemagne greatly increased the provision of monastic schools and scriptoria (centres for book-copying) in Francia. -
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Vikramaśīla University, India
Vikramaśīla University, another important center of Buddhist learning in India, was established by King Dharmapala (783 to 820) in response to a supposed decline in the quality of scholarship at Nālandā