The earliest school in the world was born in Sumer, which is the "Mud Bookstore". In 1930s, French archaeologist Andre parrot excavated a house in Mali, a famous city in the upper reaches of the two river basins, which is considered to be the earliest excavated school in the world. This house includes a passage and two houses. This big house is 44 feet long and 25 feet wide. The area of the small room is 65438+ 0/3 of the large room. There are 4 rows of stone benches in the big room, which can seat about 45 people; There are three rows of stone benches in the small room, which can seat about 20 people, much like a school classroom. There was no platform for lectures in the room, but many clay tablets were found, such as students' homework. The house is close to the palace, and there is also a place to store clay tablets nearby. So archaeologists infer that this is a school, which was built around 3500 BC and is the earliest school for human beings. If this inference is correct, then the school in Mesopotamia is about 1000 years earlier than the court school in ancient Egypt in 2500 BC. The earliest institution of higher learning: Plato returned to Athens in 387 BC, and set up his own school-college near a garden and playground in the northwest corner of the city to commemorate the Greek hero Arcadius. The name of the college is related to the address of the college, and the location of the college is related to the legendary Greek Heroes College, hence the name. This is the earliest institution of higher learning in the West, hence the name of the later Academy, which is the predecessor of the universities developed in the Middle Ages in the West. The college existed for more than 900 years until it was closed by Justinian the Great in 529 AD. The college is greatly influenced by Pythagoras, and its curriculum is similar to the traditional topics of Pythagoras school, including arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and acoustics. The earliest university: the University of Bologna in Italy is considered by the western society. University of Bologna (Italian: universitàdiBologna；; ; Honorable Name: Mother of Universities, Latin: AlmaMaterStudiorum, also translated as Bologna University and Bologna University) is the oldest university recognized in Europe, located in Bologna, the capital of Emilia-Romagne Region. Although the constitution of the university was first formulated in 13 17, in fact, the first law school appeared in Bologna as early as the end of 1 1, so the establishment time of the university was determined by the history committee led by Josue Calduch at the 800th anniversary of the university. The founder of this university is Nerio.