quod natura non dat, salmantica non praestat 108
What nature does not, the University of Salamanca also gives it, Spanish proverb indicating that the titles are not enough to make someone intelligent, as it is said in these other: Salamanca does not make miracles, which becomes donkey, do not get wise the ass went to Rome, becomes ass. Originally it was probably an elegant and educated way of calling someone a fool but had the title of Bachelor or graduate of the University of Salamanca, the oldest in Spain ( 13th century ) still in active. Some awarded this title to the Arab University of Cordoba ( 8th century ) where he taught and researched Abulcasis, the father of surgery; others attribute it to the University of Palencia ( 12th century ) Domingo de Guzmán and Gonzalo de Berceo studied in which the trivium and the quadrivium.