Sentence examples similar to The seats of learning from inspiring English sources

The monasteries were the main seats of learning.

As far as he is concerned, the institutions that once made Britain great – from parliament to the ancient seats of learning, from monarchy and the common law to the Church of England – have all been hollowed out and subverted by cynical soixante-huitards.

Such beautiful masterpieces were obviously much too costly and rare for the thousands of masters and students who thronged the 12th-century seats of learning.

He added: "I'm the proud possessor of a small silver trowel, once presented to me by a mayor of Leicester, an even prouder owner of an honorary doctorate from Leicester University, and will be always grateful to one of the country's finest seats of learning for the hospitality it has always shown to me and my TOGs".

As with all on the right, that unwillingness to let the hoi polloi into seats of learning smacks of saloon-bar grumbles about the frightful shortage of plumbers these days.

AN INCONVENIENCE that the medieval founders of Oxford and Cambridge colleges probably did not have to contend with was demonstrators bearing smoke-flares in protest at the creation of their seats of learning.

After the statue in Cape Town was pulled down in April last year, students in universities across the globe have been campaigning to draw attention to the colonial legacies of great seats of learning.

These seats of learning formed the basis for the later great bardic colleges.

A 60-second guide to some of the UK's top postgraduate seats of learning.

The abbey became a missionary centre, and its school was one of Europe's important seats of learning during the early Middle Ages, after Rabanus Maurus became its director in 803.

Natural light pours in from the windows in the ceiling, filling the spacious seat of learning.