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Although Photios had an excellent education, we have no information about how he received this education.

The famous library he possessed attests to his enormous erudition ( theology, history, grammar, philosophy, law, the natural sciences, and medicine ).

Most scholars believe that he never taught at Magnaura or at any other university ; Vasileios N. Tatakes asserts that, even while he was patriarch, Photios taught " young students passionately eager for knowledge " at his home, which " was a center of learning ".