5. The OLDEST CONTINUOUSLY OPERATING UNIVERSITIES are in the Islamic world, and the longest-running of those is Kaarueein, or al-Qarawlyyin, founded in 859 in Fes, Morocco, predating any Europen one by more than 200 years.
But Takshashila, in present-day Pakistand, was a thriving center of free higher education 16 centuries before that.
6. CHICAGO has been the home of some very unorthodox colleges. there was the Hobo College, founded in 1908 by Dr. Ben Reitman to give homeless people a place to gather and hear lectures on philosophy and literature.
Then, there was the College of Complexes, a free-speech forum founded in 1951 and still going strong. (A recent topic: "Was Jesus a Proto-Communist?)
And then there was the Chicago Cubs "famous" College of Coaches, an invention of owner P.K. Wrigley in which the team had no manager in 1961 and 1962 but was run by a group of coaches who took turns serving as head coach. Wrigley's idea flunked out, though, as the Cubbies went 123-193 those two years.
--DaCoot
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