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Maynooth University
Overview
Maynooth University (MU; Irish: Ollscoil Mhá Nuad) is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland in Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland. Maynooth University was formerly known as National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM; Irish: Ollscoil na hÉireann Mhá Nuad). It was Ireland's youngest university until Technological University Dublin was established in 2019, having been founded by the Universities Act, 1997, from the secular faculties of the now separate St Patrick's College, Maynooth, which was founded in 1795. Maynooth is one of two university towns in Ireland, the other being Tralee, Co. Kerry.
The university consists of two connected campuses: an older southern campus, with 19th-century buildings, shared with St Patrick's College, and a modern northern campus, occupying c. 40 hectares (100 acres).
Over 16,000 students are enrolled in the university, employing over 1,000 staff from over 20 different countries. In 2009, Maynooth University was listed as a Top500 university in the Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings. In 2008, it was named The Sunday Times 'University of the Year'.
In the Times Higher Education Young University Rankings 2023, Maynooth University was ranked as the highest placed of Ireland's four universities under 50 years old.
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The classic languages were the only means of escape from the limitations of the Middle Ages. Thus there sprang up the prototype of the grammar school, more liberal than the university (so largely professional in character), for the purpose of putting into the hands of the people the key to the old learning, that men might see a world with a larger horizon. The object was primarily culture, secondarily discipline. It…
John Dewey, The school and society
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Boethius, The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy
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Marcus Tullius Cicero, Academica
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