the University of Oxford without exaggeration can be called The Keeper of History the exact date of its foundation is unknown but it is assumed that education in Oxford was already underway in 1096 which makes it the oldest university in the englishspeaking world the list of University alumni is full of famous names among them 28 Noble laurates 27 British prime ministers and a great deal of prominent scientists writers politicians and much more among those studied Within These Walls are Margaret fetcher Bill Clinton Oscar wild actress Roseman Pike actors Hugh Grant and Rowan Atkinson known to us as Mr Bean magic you're watching this Maps TV channel the most International Channel about education here we tell about starting and career opportunities abroad about pecularities of life in different countries about people and companies worth learning from today we'll talk about one of the most famous universities in the world and find out what oath you need to learn if you want to visit the University's Library how did it happen that time on Oxford grounds flows in its own way why did Oxford students have to literally defend their diplomas Oxford still holds a lot of mysteries and today we'll try to solve [Music] them the university got its name from the city of Oxford the city's name comes from the Anglo-Saxons oxin Fort which literally meant oxen's shallow river crossing that's because Oxford was located at the river thems shallow Crossing where herds of oxen and other domestic animals could cross the water safely nowadays Oxford University can be called a city within a city it's a huge educational complex consisting of 38 autonomous colleges Oxford grounds are equipped with all the necessary infrastructure in addition to dorms and shops it has pubs and restaurants and until 2003 it even had its own police there are more than 100 libraries here the most famous of these is the bodan library the oldest in Europe it was founded in 16002 curiously it still has a rule that to enter a visitor must not only show the Raider's card but also promise that he will not light a fire in it in the past where the most common light sources were candles torches and fireplaces there was a high risk of fire especially in buildings with a lot of paper therefore a rule was introduced in the bodan library that no fire or any source of Open Flame should be brought into the building of course modern technology has long replaced the needing candles and torches so now this historical rule remains simply as a part of the library's Heritage and tradition to become a reader you need to recite the following Oath by heart I hereby undertake not to remove from the library not to Mark def face or injure in any way any volume document or other object belonging to it or in its custody not to bring into the library or Kindle therein any fire or flame and not to smoke in the library and I promise to obey all rules of the library the redcliff camera is a part of the bodan library which house is the main reading room among traditional Gothic buildings the Ratliff camera looks unusual it is a retunda reminiscent of Italian architecture it was this building that acted as the library in Harry Potter by the way it wasn't just the redli camera that served as inspiration for Joan Rowling when creating Hogwarts she often described the corridors of Oxford colleges their ornate galleries hung with portraits vaulted ceilings and soaring Towers a lot of the scene in the film were also shot in Oxford for example in Christ Church College which by the way Louis Carrol the author of the Alice in Wonderland graduated also located here one of the oldest publishing houses in the world Oxford printed its first book in 1478 just a couple of years after the first printing press arrived in England the world famous Oxford English Dictionary was also printed and published here in the 19th century books from Oxford University press are are sold in 50 countries Oxford is also so old and Grand that it has its own Oxford time it is historically ahead of London's by 5 minutes in past centuries time in different cities could be little behind or ahead the difference was often small only 5 to 10 minutes but with the Advent of electricity and radio communications the Hall of Great Britain began to live on London time except for Oxford here you can always be 5 minutes late to your with no consequences we know what the university is like these days but let's go back in time for a moment in the 14th century historian ronal hgan wrote that the University was founded in the 10th Century by Alfred the Great but scientists have not found evidence for this yet it's known that schooling at Oxford in one way or another existed as early as 1996 but it's not clear when the university arose one Theory claims it was originally a church School founded by King William II by 1167 this educational institution began to develop rapidly as Henry II banned English students from studying at the University of Paris thus began the development of the University of Oxford from the very beginning tensions arose between the town's people and students which led to years of unrest fights and Strikes this confrontation went down in history as town and gown one of these conflict turned out to be deadly several rioting students were executed by the town's people and a load of students and teachers were forced to flee Oxford they found refuge in a small town called Cambridge there the fugitives founded their own education institution in 1209 which later became the University of Cambridge Oxford's main competitor for centuries but that's another story Oxford students settled with Town's people renting rooms which provoked endless conflicts and so in the 13th century the first colleges with their own dmetry buildings were founded where students soon began to move in fact after 1410 students were prohibited from living with the town's people and they had no choice but to live in colleges dormitories you probably wondering what medieval dormitories were like at all and how students live there back in those days while we have an episode about that on our Channel you can watch it right after this video the link is in the description on one of my trips to DK I managed to visit the University of Oxford and even spend the night in an Oxford dormitory we have been organizing summer camps abroad for many years including in the UK and our partners kindly organized for me this trip with the opportunity to stay at the University of Oxford if if you also want to get a feel of foreign education institutions visit our website snaps.com our Consultants will help you choose an educational institution abroad and now let's get back to history initially colleges were essentially dorms or what was called collegiums or communities the very first college was founded back in 1249 and called University College others followed Bal College in 1263 and Mar in college in 1264 the last two were named after their Founders which became a tradition the most famous college Christ Church was also originally named after Cardinal Thomas woy in 1525 every evening one could hear bells ringing from behind the college fence notifying students of the end of the day notably they still ring to this day at exactly 9:05 p.m. paying tribute to the Oxford time initially the University of Oxford did not have a single campus and consisted of multiple colleges where students and teachers lived and studied each college functioned autonomously with its own rules and administration University College is considered the oldest of them in the 14th century a legend aroused that the college was founded by King Alfred the Great in 872 but most agree that the college was actually founded in 1249 by William of Durham he Beed money to support 10 masters studying Divinity and a property which became known as Ola universitatis University Hall was brought in 1253 balel College one of the oldest campuses was founded around 1263 by John D balel under the guidance of Walter of keram the bishop of Durham at that time John de balel came into conflict with the bishop of dur for which he was excommunicated as an act of repentance he decided to found an educational institution that would provide education to poor students he bought them a house which later turned into college after the bal's death his window continued the work of her spouse competing with balel for the title of oldest university is the meron college its foundation dates back to 1260s when Walter de Martin Chancellor to Henry III first Drew up St stes for an independent academic community and established endowments to support it an important feature of the merens foundation was that this college was to be self-governing and the endowments were directly vested in the warden and fellows it was this college that the famous writer John Ronald aruel Tolkien graduated from later he would teach English literature there but it was not always possible to study World Classics languages or quantum physics in Oxford in the early years of Oxford University most students were theologians their entire training program was connected with theology most attention was paid to studying religious literature but there were also studied the Seven Liberal Arts which included grammar rethoric logic arithmetics geometry music and astronomy education was conducted in Latin the most common form of teaching was lecturing there were two types of Le is mandatory and optional the obligatory ones were usually read from dawn to 9:00 a.m. and the additional ones took place in the evenings from about 6:00 to 10: p.m. a single lecture lasted approximately 1 to 2 hours once a week students were required to attend debates where they Consolidated the acquired knowledge in discussions which often turned into heated disputes the participants of the debates behaved very liberally interrupting the speaker with wesle and shouting thesis defenses went about the same way maybe that's where the expression of Defending Your thesis came from since it was attacked to some extent there is no doubt that Oxford is a university of traditions from time Memorial every college has been zealously preserving its way of life making virtually no changes for example many of them still hold dinner parties to which only successful students are invited they sit at long tables and talk with teachers or take the tradition of wearing robes for exams they may not let you in without it to this day students it end the May morning which has been held annually in Oxford for 500 years and the Magdalene College Choir still deloit listeners with its singing every first of May it all works not only to unite students from different countries but also connects together entire eras this continuity of generations keeping up Traditions quality education and ancient Gothic buildings make Oxford a unique Monument to the history of human development friends if you enjoyed 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