Akademi

Akademi adalah perguruan tinggi yang menyelenggarakan pendidikan vokasi dalam satu cabang atau sebahagian cabang ilmu pengetahuan, teknologi, atau seni tertentu.

Nama ini berasal dari sekolah falsafah Aflatun yang didirikan pada sekitar tahun 385 SM di Akademia, sebuah pekarangan dusun pokok zaitun belah utara Athens, Yunani yang dikhususkan sebagai tempat pemujaan Athena, dewi kebijaksanaan dan kemampuan^[1]^[2] dinamakan sempena Akademos, seorang pahlawan asal Attike.^[3]^[4]

^ Pancaldi, Maurizio; Trombino, Mario; Villani, Maurizio (2006). Atlante della filosofia: gli autori e le scuole, le parole, le opere (dalam bahasa Itali). Hoepli. m/s. 85.
^ Thucydides. ii:34.
^ The archaic name for the site was Ἑκαδήμεια (Hekademia), which by classical times evolved into Ἀκαδημία (Akademia), which was explained, at least as early as the beginning of the 6th century BC, by linking it to "Akademos", a legendary Athenian hero.
^ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Academus", dalam Smith, William (penyunting), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston, m/s. 5, diarkibkan daripada yang asal pada 2007-09-07, dicapai pada 2020-12-24

[1] Pancaldi, Maurizio; Trombino, Mario; Villani, Maurizio (2006). Atlante della filosofia: gli autori e le scuole, le parole, le opere (dalam bahasa Itali). Hoepli. m/s. 85.

[2] Thucydides. ii:34.

[3] The archaic name for the site was Ἑκαδήμεια (Hekademia), which by classical times evolved into Ἀκαδημία (Akademia), which was explained, at least as early as the beginning of the 6th century BC, by linking it to "Akademos", a legendary Athenian hero.

[4] Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Academus", dalam Smith, William (penyunting), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston, m/s. 5, diarkibkan daripada yang asal pada 2007-09-07, dicapai pada 2020-12-24

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