His actions splitting his force twice in the face of an adversary double his size are still studied in military academies for their vision and audacity.
Today, capoeira has staged somewhat of a comeback and is even studied in dance academies as part of a general movement to rejuvenate folk traditions.
Sitting in a magnificent dining hall in St .James College built in 1514, near a library built by Christopher Wren, and just yards away from the laboratory where penicillin was discovered by Alexander Fleming, Cambridge's vice chancellor Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz talked about why play must be studied in the academy.
She also studied in the Berlin Academy for Jewish Studies.
He was sent at the age of 17 to Athens, where he studied in Plato's Academy for 20 years, until Plato's death in 347.
The two Platonic themes of superior political knowledge and, expressed particularly in his Laws, political participation, also structure the political thought of Aristotle (384 322 BCE), who studied in Plato's Academy as a youth and researched there for many years thereafter.
The latest inspection results show 350,000 children now study in sponsored academies rated 'good' or 'outstanding'".
Furthermore, the totality of Hannibal's victory has made the name "Cannae" a byword for military success, and is studied in detail in military academies around the world.
He settled down to exercise his judicial function (engaging to this end in the minute study of Roman law), to administer his property, and to advance his knowledge of the sciences especially of geology, biology, and physics which he studied in the newly formed academy of Bordeaux.
Committed to a military career, he studied in Polish and Soviet military academies and gained the patronage of powerful Soviet generals, whose backing proved vital to his career.
