Bulletin No. 2, 2013

Engaging the World 23  AMobile Education The opportunity to study abroad may have once seemed like a luxury, yet it is nothing terribly new. Before the great universities of the 12th century— Oxford, Paris and Bologna—came into being, universities were wandering communities. The old monastic and cathedral schools were too small to accommodate a burgeoning student population, so eager youth began to congregate in towns and cities where a likely master could be found. No matter how great or lowly our own, there is always something we can learn from another’s home, and something we can bring to it.