The universities of this era are, uh...
Dens of thugs.
Yes. That feeling seems closer than "halls of learning." No, why on earth would they guarantee students the right to beg? I could understand establishing extraterritoriality as simply medieval.
...No.
Perhaps I'm being too prejudiced.
Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Isaac Newton, and so on.
Aren't they all people who received university education in this era and became excellent scholars?
And their achievements were published, exchanged, and spread to somehow influence many people, so in the end, universities must have fulfilled their role. It's not like Newton printed his writings himself and distributed pamphlets.
Feeling the need to investigate more objectively, I asked the exchange students again.
"Everyone does as they please. Many don't even attend lectures properly because they're going to prison..."
