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University as a Marketplace
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Concentrated, cloistered universities, with
closed admission policies and rigid procedures
which dictate who may teach a course, kill
opportunities for learning.
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The original universities in the middle ages
were simply collections of teachers who
attracted students because they had something
to offer. They were marketplaces of ideas,
located all over the town, where people could
shop around for the kinds of ideas and
learning which made sense to them.
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