Our visit to the Pontifical University of Salamanca was only possible by joining a tour..... given only in Spanish. The rooms were beautiful but the talk went on and on....... it was only sllightly more interesting than some of the lectures that I sat through such as Econometrics and Mathematics for Economists.
The city is a traditional seat of learning in Spain. We saw the old lecture rooms that are famous as the venue where Fray Luis was arrested in the Inquisition for subversion of the faith. After 5 years imprisonment and torture, he was released and continued his lecture with his famous words "As I was saying yesterday".
Aah the commitment of university lecturers. Frank H, Please note.
If time permits, we may visit the Oxford of Portugal next week.
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Hmm. Not sure that tour sounds terribly fabulous. At least, if it's worse than the lecture you mentioned, which sounds dreadfully boring, it must have been dreary indeed!
Imagine how much more boring it would have been if you spoke Spanish!
And remember - Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
I can't believe you are implying that any form of Mathematics is uninteresting! Or perhaps you meant Mathematics lectures were all Spanish to you? You have obviously never been in one of MY maths classes..
I thought that would bring out a comment cousintaf. You may be surprised to know that I passed Mathematics for Economists so also have a university qualification in Mathematics. I certainly did not get a distinction.
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