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> Colleges started out as vocational schools for priests Not really. Higher education started with Ancient Egypt's "School of Life" (surveying, mathematics, ar
by dumbledoren 2y ago
> Colleges started out as vocational schools for priests
Not really. Higher education started with Ancient Egypt's "School of Life" (surveying, mathematics, architecture, medicine etc - physical sciences) and "School of Death" (religion, philosophy etc - social sciences). Both were intended to produce graduates who would do actual jobs rather than being places of elite making connections or priests reciting religious texts.