Academia

Academia is a word for higher education and research. The word comes from the akademeia just outside ancient Athens, where the gymnasium was made famous by Plato.

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A fresco that depicts a congregation of philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists from Ancient Greece, including Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Archimedes, and Heraclitus
The School of Athens, fresco by Raphael (1509–1510), of an idealized academy
Nalanda, ancient center of higher learning in Bihar, India from 427 to 1197
Bologna University, Italy, established in AD 1088, is the world's oldest academic institution in continuous operation.
The modern Academy of Athens, next to the University of Athens and the National Library forming 'the Trilogy', designed by Schinkel's Danish pupil Theofil Hansen, 1885, in Greek Ionic, academically correct even to the polychrome sculpture
Åbo Akademi, an academy building designed by Charles Bassi, was built on 1833 in Turku, Finland.
A map outlining the academies overseeing education in France
Professors and newly conferred doctors of philosophy posing at a Worcester Polytechnic Institute graduation

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