Plato's Akademeia was for teaching. The modern research-oriented connotation of the word only dates from 1880 or so. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search

Plato's Akademeia was for teaching. The modern research-oriented connotation of the word only dates from 1880 or so. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=academia http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=academia Of course, I wasn't talking about the word, but the idea. That is a little bit older, but it's definitely a post-renaissance creation. (I also responded at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3615474 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3615474)