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Plato's Academy
Plato founds a school near Athens that lasts for centuries and becomes the model for organised higher learning.
Open in the interactive tree →Plato's Academy trained Aristotle and many mathematicians; Aristotle then founded the Lyceum. The word 'academy' still names learned institutions, and the idea of a lasting community of teachers and students passes to later schools and universities.
Prerequisites
- Philosophy~585 BC
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- Aristotle's natural history~340 BC
- Baghdad Translation Movement~800
- Universities1088Plato's Academy was the early model of a lasting community of teachers and students
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