Norwegian-American Colleges and Universities NAC-72

If people can be prevented from obtaining an education, they can be manipulated and easily dominated. Norwegians were intentionally kept from receiving an education while under the Danish for their 417-year rule of Norway. If a Norwegian wanted to attend a university, it had to be the University of Copenhagen. (If that person was a woman, she was entirely out of luck.) Their independence though short-lived, opened up a whole new era for Norway. It took only six years for Norway, after shedding Danish rule to create the University of Oslo in 1811. Let's put this in perspective. The University of Copenhagen was established in 1479; the Uppsala University in Sweden in 1477; the University of Bologna in Italy in about 1000; the University of Paris before 1050; and the Oxford University in England in 1096. All the European nations had at least one university before 1600. In fact, Harvard University was founded in 1636, only sixteen years after the first Europeans arrived in New England. Yet Norway would not have a university for 175 years later.

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