Academy | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-05

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy


00:00:36 1 Etymology
00:01:47 2 Origins
00:01:56 2.1 Original Academy
00:03:38 2.2 Neoplatonic Academy of Late Antiquity
00:06:12 3 Ancient and medieval institutions
00:06:23 3.1 Ancient world
00:06:32 3.1.1 Greece and early Europe
00:07:09 3.1.2 Africa
00:07:56 3.1.3 China
00:09:01 3.1.4 India
00:12:07 3.2 Persia
00:13:24 3.2.1 Islamic world
00:14:08 3.3 Medieval Europe
00:15:34 4 Renaissance academies in Italy
00:15:54 4.1 15th-century iaccademie/i
00:19:54 4.2 16th-century literary-aesthetic academies
00:23:11 5 17th- and 18th-century academies in Europe
00:23:43 5.1 Literary-philosophical academies
00:25:16 5.2 Academies of the arts
00:27:13 5.3 Linguistic academies
00:29:18 5.4 Academies of sciences
00:33:26 5.5 Academic societies
00:34:38 5.6 Military academies
00:36:46 6 Modern use of the term iacademy/i
00:40:26 6.1 French regional academies overseeing education
00:41:22 6.2 Russian research academies
00:41:54 6.3 English school types
00:42:04 6.3.1 Tertiary education
00:43:13 6.3.2 Primary and secondary education
00:45:18 6.4 United States
00:48:18 6.5 Germany
00:49:17 7 Academic personnel
00:50:58 8 Structure
00:52:59 8.1 Qualifications
00:53:57 8.2 Academic conferences
00:54:23 8.3 Conflicting goals
00:55:14 8.3.1 Practice and theory
00:56:44 8.3.2 Town and gown
00:57:41 9 Academic publishing
00:57:51 9.1 History of academic journals
01:00:11 9.2 Current status and development
01:02:19 10 Academic dress



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An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education, higher learning, research, or honorary membership.
Academia is the worldwide group composed of professors and researchers at institutes of higher learning.
The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 385 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the goddess of wisdom and skill, north of Athens, Greece.