Step into Oxford in the year 1096: muddy streets, cramped halls, chickens underfoot… and the sound of students shouting Latin at the top of their lungs. It wasn’t polished, but something revolutionary was being born.

This episode uncovers the surprising truth: the university is a Christian invention.

Before Oxford or Paris ever had quads and lecture halls, the Church built the only places in the world where ordinary people (not nobles, not monks) could pursue knowledge openly. Cathedral schools, monastic libraries, and Christian convictions about truth, reason, creation, and the human mind laid the foundations for:

* The scientific method

* Academic freedom

* The liberal arts

* Law, medicine, and theology as unified disciplines

* The very idea of a “universitas” — a community of learners

Discovered the profound way Christianity shaped modern education.

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