History Of Education In DIfferent Countries (all dates in AD)
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500
Europe
Many medieval universities were run for hundreds of years as Christian cathedral schools or monastic schools, in which monks taught classes; evidence of these immediate forerunners of the later university at many places dates back to the early 6th century. -
Sep 13, 600
Islamic World
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. -
May 15, 605
China
In 605 AD, during the Sui Dynasty, for the first time, an examination system was explicitly instituted for a category of local talents. -
Sep 10, 664
Europe
After the Synod of Whitby in 664 AD, Roman church practices officially replaced the Celtic ones but the influence of the Anglo-Celtic style continued, the most famous examples of this being the Lindisfarne Gospels. -
Oct 2, 1000
China
Children also learn the Hundred Family Surnames, a rhyming poem in lines of eight characters composed in the early Song Dynasty which actually listed more than four hundred of the common surnames in ancient China. -
Mar 6, 1100
EUROPE
The first medieval institutions generally considered to be universities were established in Italy, France, and England. -
Jun 16, 1100
Europe
The first medieval institutions generally considered to be universities were established in Italy, France, and England in the late 11th and the 12th centuries for the study of arts, law, medicine, and theology. -
Nov 22, 1179
Europe
Cathedral schools and monasteries remained important throughout the Middle Ages; at the Third Lateran Council of 1179 the Church mandated that priests provide the opportunity of a free education to their flocks, and the 12th and 13th century renascence known as the Scholastic Movement was spread through the monasteries. -
Jun 21, 1500
India
Amongst the subjects taught were Art, Architecture, Painting, Logic, mathematics, Grammar, Philosophy, Astronomy, Literature, Buddhism, Hinduism, Arthashastra (Economics & Politics), Law, and Medicine. -
Oct 11, 1500
Japan
During the medieval period (1185-1600), Zen Buddhist monasteries were especially important centers of learning, and the Ashikaga School, Ashikaga Gakko, flourished in the 15th century as a center of higher learning. -
Dec 30, 1500
Islamic World
In the 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. -
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. -
Japan
By the 9th century, Heian-kyo (today's Kyoto), the imperial capital, had five institutions of higher learning, and during the remainder of the Heian period, other schools were established by the nobility and the imperial court.
