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Yes, because it was considered the highest honor at the time, but that didn't mean it was the only means to achieve what at the time would be considered higher education. Sagre's school, for instance, was probably responsible for cultivating half the people worthy at sea at its height, and after the desecularization of education happened, a lot more places of higher education started propping up, like Real Colégio dos Nobres, Academia das Ciências de Lisboa and Académica Real da Marinha, which are predecessors to current day universities in Portugal and offered courses in the same vein universities would