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4 MARCH 2004, THURSDAY, MUNICH, GERMANY.<\/p>\n
Harvard: the View from Germany – 15<\/p>\n
\u201c \u2018Networks, friendships, and experiences that last a lifetime develop from these small groups,\u2019 said Bernd Wittig of MIT. \u2018The years as a student should be the most intense years of a person\u2019s life. What counts is not the result of education, but the experience of education.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n
(To be continued)<\/p>\n
Wolfgang Koydl, \u201cZauberlehrlinge an der goldenen Schultafel\u201c, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, 15 January 2004<\/p>\n
“I love (my country) more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” – James Baldwin<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was not the solution of the question of national unity which stands at the beginning of the road to catastrophe (for Germany), but the failure to settle the question of freedom.\u201d – German Historian Heinrich August Winkler<\/p>\n
\u201cThe kind of thing I find particularly shameful in post-war German history,\u201d a friend reports, \u201cis that after 1945 the Federal Republic refused to provide the usual military widow\u2019s pension to Caroline von Stauffenberg.\u201d \u201cStauffenberg?\u201d I said. \u201cHer husband, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg,” she explained, \u201cattempted to assassinate Hitler by setting off a bomb at the dictator\u2019s military headquarters in East Prussia on 20 July 1944. Stauffenberg is honored in Germany today, but he was for a long time after the war — like Thomas Mann, Marlene Dietrich, every deserter from the Wehrmacht, and so many other Germans — regarded with contempt and widely considered to be a traitor to his country. I wonder how he would have been treated at a place like the Technical University of Munich.\u201d<\/p>\n
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4 M\u00c4RZ 2004, DONNERSTAG, M\u00dcNCHEN, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n
Harvard: von Deutschland aus gesehen – 15<\/p>\n
\u201e \u201aAus diesen Gemeinschaften entstehen Netzwerke, Freundschaften und Erfahrungen, die ein Leben lang halten\u2019, hat Bernd Wittig vom MIT erkannt. \u201aDie Studienjahre sollen ja die intensivsten Jahre des Lebens werden. Was z\u00e4hlt, ist nicht nur das Bildungsergebnis, sondern das Bildungserlebnis.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n
(Fortsetzung folgt)<\/p>\n
Wolfgang Koydl, \u201eZauberlehrlinge an der goldenen Schultafel\u201c, S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung, 15.01.2004<\/p>\n
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3 MARCH 2004, WEDNESDAY, MUNICH, GERMANY.<\/p>\n
Harvard: the View from Germany – 14<\/p>\n
\u201c \u2018You can\u2019t seek out the people you\u2019ll be thrown together with, and the university administration tries to mix us together,\u2019 said Swati Mylavarapu. \u2018Kids from inner-city problem areas can be living with the children of millionaires, or the offspring of European aristocracy with the middle class.\u2019 But doesn\u2019t that lead to tensions, to ostentation and arrogance? Swati Mylavarapu thought for a moment. \u2018No, snobbery is actually not a problem. We all know that we belong to the best and the brightest, otherwise we wouldn\u2019t be here. We don\u2019t have to prove ourselves in that respect.\u2019 As an example of what she meant, she pointed out that among the other young women she lives with there was a nationally-known hockey player, a Russian pianist who plays at the concert level, and a prize-winning documentary film-maker from New England. \u2018And none of us are more than twenty,\u2019 she added.\u201d<\/p>\n
(To be continued)<\/p>\n
Wolfgang Koydl, \u201cZauberlehrlinge an der goldenen Schultafel\u201c, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, 15 January 2004<\/p>\n
“I love (my country) more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” – James Baldwin<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was not the solution of the question of national unity which stands at the beginning of the road to catastrophe (for Germany), but the failure to settle the question of freedom.\u201d – German Historian Heinrich August Winkler<\/p>\n
\u201cThe kind of thing I find particularly shameful in post-war German history,\u201d a friend reports, \u201cis that after 1945 the Federal Republic refused to provide the usual military widow\u2019s pension to Caroline von Stauffenberg.\u201d \u201cStauffenberg?\u201d I said. \u201cHer husband, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg,” she explained, \u201cattempted to assassinate Hitler by setting off a bomb at the dictator\u2019s military headquarters in East Prussia on 20 July 1944. Stauffenberg is honored in Germany today, but he was for a long time after the war — like Thomas Mann, Marlene Dietrich, every deserter from the Wehrmacht, and so many other Germans — regarded with contempt and widely considered to be a traitor to his country. I wonder how he would have been treated at a place like the Technical University of Munich.\u201d<\/p>\n
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3 M\u00c4RZ 2004, MITTWOCH, M\u00dcNCHEN, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n
Harvard: von Deutschland aus gesehen – 14<\/p>\n
\u201e \u201aMan kann sich die Leute nicht aussuchen, mit denen man zusammengew\u00fcrfelt wird, und die Uni-Verwaltung versucht, uns gut durchzumischen\u2019, hat Swati Mylavarapu erkannt. \u201aDa k\u00f6nnen Kids aus Problemzonen in verwahrlosten Innenst\u00e4dten zusammen mit Million\u00e4rskindern wohnen oder europ\u00e4ischer Hochadel mit Mittelstand.\u2019 Aber f\u00fchrt das nicht zu Spannungen, zu Angeberei und Arroganz? Swati Mylavarapu muss nur kurz \u00fcberlegen. \u201aNein, Snobismus ist eigentlich kein Problem. Wir wissen ja alle, dass wir zu den Besten geh\u00f6ren, sonst w\u00e4ren wir nicht hier. Wir m\u00fcssen uns nichts beweisen.\u2019 Zum Beleg f\u00fchrt sie ihre eigene Wohngemeinschaft an: eine landesweit bekannte Hockey-Spielerin, eine konzertreife russische Pianistin und eine preisgekr\u00f6nte Dokumentarfilmerin aus Neuengland. \u201aUnd wir sind alle nicht \u00e4lter als zwanzig\u2019, f\u00fcgt sie hinzu.\u201c<\/p>\n
(Fortsetzung folgt)<\/p>\n
Wolfgang Koydl, \u201eZauberlehrlinge an der goldenen Schultafel\u201c, S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung, 15.01.2004<\/p>\n
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2 MARCH 2004, TUESDAY, MUNICH, GERMANY.<\/p>\n
Harvard: the View from Germany – 13<\/p>\n
\u201cAnother characteristic of Harvard that may also seem puritanical, and that gives the university the qualities of a closed institution such as a monastery or a military barracks is the obligatory community experience. Among other things, this leads to all 1600 first-year students taking their meals together in wood-panelled Annenberg Hall, like apprentices at Hogwart’s School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. In addition, whether they want to or not, first-year students have to live on campus in four-person suites of rooms. After that, they move into so-called \u2018houses\u2019, the kind that might also be familiar to Harry Potter fans. In this way, the anonymous atmosphere of a large university can be reduced to the more manageable size of a college.\u201d<\/p>\n
(To be continued)<\/p>\n
Wolfgang Koydl, \u201cZauberlehrlinge an der goldenen Schultafel\u201c, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, 15 January 2004<\/p>\n
“I love (my country) more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” – James Baldwin<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was not the solution of the question of national unity which stands at the beginning of the road to catastrophe (for Germany), but the failure to settle the question of freedom.\u201d – German Historian Heinrich August Winkler<\/p>\n
\u201cThe kind of thing I find particularly shameful in post-war German history,\u201d a friend reports, \u201cis that after 1945 the Federal Republic refused to provide the usual military widow\u2019s pension to Caroline von Stauffenberg.\u201d \u201cStauffenberg?\u201d I said. \u201cHer husband, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg,” she explained, \u201cattempted to assassinate Hitler by setting off a bomb at the dictator\u2019s military headquarters in East Prussia on 20 July 1944. Stauffenberg is honored in Germany today, but he was for a long time after the war — like Thomas Mann, Marlene Dietrich, every deserter from the Wehrmacht, and so many other Germans — regarded with contempt and widely considered to be a traitor to his country. I wonder how he would have been treated at a place like the Technical University of Munich.\u201d<\/p>\n
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2 M\u00c4RZ 2004, DIENSTAG, M\u00dcNCHEN, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n
Harvard: von Deutschland aus gesehen – 13<\/p>\n
\u201ePuritanisch mutet auch eine andere Eigenart an, die Harvard Z\u00fcge einer geschlossenen Anstalt nach Art eines Klosters oder einer Kaserne verleiht: Das obligate Gemeinschaftserlebnis. Unter anderem f\u00fchrt das dazu, dass alle 1600 Studienanf\u00e4nger nach Art der Zauberlehrlinge von Hogwarts ihre Mahlzeiten gemeinsam in der holzget\u00e4felten Annenberg Hall einnehmen m\u00fcssen. Zudem m\u00fcssen alle Freshmen, wie man die Erst-Semester nennt, in Vierer-Wohngemeinschaften auf dem Campus zusammenleben \u2013 ob sie wollen oder nicht. H\u00f6here Semester ziehen sp\u00e4ter in eines der so genannten Houses um, wie man sie auch schon von Harry Potter kennt. Damit will man die anonyme Atmosph\u00e4re der Gro\u00df-Universit\u00e4t in \u00fcberschaubare College-Gr\u00f6\u00dfen aufbrechen.\u201c<\/p>\n
(Fortsetzung folgt)<\/p>\n
Wolfgang Koydl, \u201eZauberlehrlinge an der goldenen Schultafel\u201c, S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung, 15.01.2004<\/p>\n
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1 MARCH 2004, MONDAY, MUNICH, GERMANY.<\/p>\n
Harvard: the View from Germany – 12
\n\u201cSwati Mylavarapu has not regretted her decision to attend Harvard, although \u2018everything isbased on competition\u2019 at the university. \u2018Sink or swim \u2013 that\u2019s true above all for the first semester.\u2019 Zelljadt, an American doctoral candidate in history, agrees: \u201aHarvard is certainly not a warm and cozy place.\u2019 She says the principles of the Puritan founders are still in effect today: hard work under careful supervision. In addition, it is not surprising that what in Germany are referred to as \u2018Fakultaeten\u2019 are called \u2018schools\u2019 or \u2018departments\u2019 at Harvard, or that in conversation people talk less about \u2018professors\u2019 and more about \u2018teachers\u2019.\u201d
\n(To be continued)<\/p>\n
Wolfgang Koydl, \u201cZauberlehrlinge an der goldenen Schultafel\u201c, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, 15 January 2004
\n“I love (my country) more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” – James Baldwin
\n\u201cIt was not the solution of the question of national unity which stands at the beginning of the road to catastrophe (for Germany), but the failure to settle the question of freedom.\u201d – German Historian Heinrich August Winkler
\n\u201cThe kind of thing I find particularly shameful in post-war German history,\u201d a friend reports, \u201cis that after 1945 the Federal Republic refused to provide the usual military widow\u2019s pension to Caroline von Stauffenberg.\u201d \u201cStauffenberg?\u201d I said. \u201cHer husband, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg,” she explained, \u201cattempted to assassinate Hitler by setting off a bomb at the dictator\u2019s military headquarters in East Prussia on 20 July 1944. Stauffenberg is honored in Germany today, but he was for a long time after the war — like Thomas Mann, Marlene Dietrich, every deserter from the Wehrmacht, and so many other Germans — regarded with contempt and widely considered to be a traitor to his country. I wonder how he would have been treated at a place like the Technical University of Munich.\u201d<\/p>\n
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1 M\u00c4RZ 2004, MONTAG, M\u00dcNCHEN, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n
Harvard: von Deutschland aus gesehen – 12
\n\u201eSwati Mylavarapu hat ihre Entscheidung nicht bereut, obschon Harvard \u201aganz hart auf Konkurrenz aufgebaut\u2019 ist: \u201aSchwimm oder ertrinke \u2013 das gilt vor allem f\u00fcr das erste Semester.\u2019 Die Amerikanerin Zelljadt, die in Geschichte promoviert, kann das nur best\u00e4tigten: \u201aHarvard ist ganz bestimmt kein warmer und kuscheliger Ort.\u2019 Bis heute wirken, so hat sie erkannt, die Prinzipien der puritanischen Gr\u00fcnderv\u00e4ter fort: Harte Arbeit unter strenger Aufsicht. Es ist kein Wunder, dass sich Harvards Fakult\u00e4ten stolz und altmodisch Schulen nennen, und dass im Gespr\u00e4ch weniger von Professoren als von Lehrern die Rede ist.\u201c
\n(Fortsetzung folgt)
\nWolfgang Koydl, \u201eZauberlehrlinge an der goldenen Schultafel\u201c, S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung, 15.01.2004<\/p>\n
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29 FEBRUARY 2004, SUNDAY, MUNICH, GERMANY.<\/p>\n
\u201cSwati Mylavarapu and Katja Zelljadt do not have either famous names or wealthy family backgrounds, but both of them are studying at Harvard. They belong to that seventy percent of the student body whose studies are financed by either a scholarship or a loan, usually combined with a job on campus. Twenty-year-old Swati Mylavarapu, a junior studying human rights and international development, comes from Gainesville, Florida, where her father has a small engineering business. She is such a good student that half a dozen elite universities were competing for her. She chose Harvard because of the financial aid package she was offered and the attractions of the greater Boston area.\u201d<\/p>\n
(To be continued)<\/p>\n
Wolfgang Koydl, \u201cZauberlehrlinge an der goldenen Schultafel\u201c, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, 15 January 2004<\/p>\n
“I love (my country) more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” – James Baldwin<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was not the solution of the question of national unity which stands at the beginning of the road to catastrophe (for Germany), but the failure to settle the question of freedom.\u201d – German Historian Heinrich August Winkler<\/p>\n
\u201cThe kind of thing I find particularly shameful in post-war German history,\u201d a friend reports, \u201cis that after 1945 the Federal Republic refused to provide the usual military widow\u2019s pension to Caroline von Stauffenberg.\u201d \u201cStauffenberg?\u201d I said. \u201cHer husband, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg,” she explained, \u201cattempted to assassinate Hitler by setting off a bomb at the dictator\u2019s military headquarters in East Prussia on 20 July 1944. Stauffenberg is honored in Germany today, but he was for a long time after the war — like Thomas Mann, Marlene Dietrich, every deserter from the Wehrmacht, and so many other Germans — regarded with contempt and widely considered to be a traitor to his country. Incidentally, I wonder sometimes how he would have been treated at a place like the Technical University of Munich.\u201d<\/p>\n
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29 FEBRUAR 2004, SONNTAG, M\u00dcNCHEN, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n
Harvard: von Deutschland aus gesehen – 11<\/p>\n
\u201eSwati Mylavarapu und Katja Zelljadt haben weder einen gro\u00dfen Namen, noch ein reiches Elternhaus, und doch studieren sie beide in Harvard. Sie geh\u00f6ren zu jenen 70 Prozent von Studenten, deren Studium finanziert wird \u2013 durch ein Stipendium oder einen Kredit, der meist gekoppelt ist mit Arbeit auf dem Campus. Die 20-j\u00e4hrige Swati Mylavarapu, die im dritten Jahr Menschenrechte und internationale Entwicklung studiert, kommt aus Gainesville in Florida, wo ihr Vater ein kleines Ingenieurb\u00fcro betreibt. Sie ist so gut, dass sich ein halbes Dutzend Elite-Universit\u00e4ten um sie bem\u00fchten. Das Finanzpaket und die Attraktivit\u00e4t der Metropole Boston gaben den Ausschlag f\u00fcr Harvard.\u201c<\/p>\n
(Fortsetzung folgt)<\/p>\n
Wolfgang Koydl, \u201eZauberlehrlinge an der goldenen Schultafel\u201c, S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung, 15.01.2004<\/p>\n
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28 FEBRUARY 2004, SATURDAY, MUNICH, GERMANY.<\/p>\n
Harvard: the View from Germany – 10<\/p>\n
\u201cOn the other hand, what is not a prerequisite for studying at Harvard is a wealthy family. This is true even though a year of study costs around 30,000 dollars. In fact, the admissions office has no interest in the financial background of prospective students at the beginning of the application process. Those who are admitted to Harvard receive a financial plan along with their letter of congratulation, and they are free to accept this plan or not. \u2018Need-blind admissions\u2019 refers to a system that guarantees everyone an opportunity to study at Harvard. Of course the system is not perfect. Some preference is generally given to the children of former students, and Richard Hunt admits that when Helmut Kohl\u2019s son applied to Harvard, \u2018the fact that his father was the German chancellor did not hurt his chances\u2019 of being accepted. A famous name alone, of course, is not enough, if the applicant does not meet the other criteria.\u201d<\/p>\n
(To be continued)<\/p>\n
Wolfgang Koydl, \u201cZauberlehrlinge an der goldenen Schultafel\u201c, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, 15 January 2004<\/p>\n
“I love (my country) more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” – James Baldwin<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was not the solution of the question of national unity which stands at the beginning of the road to catastrophe (for Germany), but the failure to settle the question of freedom.\u201d – German Historian Heinrich August Winkler<\/p>\n
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28 FEBRUAR 2004, SAMSTAG, M\u00dcNCHEN, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n
Harvard: von Deutschland aus gesehen – 10<\/p>\n
\u201eEin reiches Elternhaus hingegen ist keine Voraussetzung f\u00fcr ein Studium in Harvard, und dies, obwohl ein Studienjahr im Schnitt 30 000 Dollar kostet. Tats\u00e4chlich interessiert sich die Aufnahmekommission zun\u00e4chst einmal \u00fcberhaupt nicht f\u00fcr den finanziellen Hintergrund der Bewerber. Wer auserw\u00e4hlt wird, erh\u00e4lt zusammen mit dem Gl\u00fcckwunschbrief automatisch einen Finanzierungsplan, den er annehmen kann oder nicht. \u201aNeed-blind admissions\u2019 hei\u00dft das System, das Chancengleichheit gew\u00e4hrleisten soll. Perfekt ist es freilich nicht: Kinder ehemaliger Studenten werden gemeinhin bevorzugt, und als einer der beiden S\u00f6hne Helmut Kohls sich bewarb, \u201ada schadete es nicht, dass sein Vater Bundeskanzler war\u2019, wie Richard Hunt zugibt. Ein klingender Name allein freilich reicht nicht aus, solange der Bewerber die anderen Kriterien nicht erf\u00fcllt.\u201c<\/p>\n
(Fortsetzung folgt)<\/p>\n
Wolfgang Koydl, \u201eZauberlehrlinge an der goldenen Schultafel\u201c, S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung, 15.01.2004<\/p>\n
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27 FEBRUARY 2004, FRIDAY, MUNICH, GERMANY.<\/p>\n
Harvard: the View from Germany – 9<\/p>\n
\u201cTalents like that, which have little to do with studies, play a greater role in the selection of Harvard students than the outstanding grade average that almost all applicants have to offer anyway. Already 20,986 high school students have applied for a place in the Harvard class of 2007, but only 1,650 of them will be accepted. For that reason, admissions officials look for qualities that in Europe have long been considered somewhat old-fashioned: leadership, character, social commitment, intellectual curiosity, integrity, and maturity.\u201d<\/p>\n
(To be continued)<\/p>\n
Wolfgang Koydl, \u201cZauberlehrlinge an der goldenen Schultafel\u201c, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, 15 January 2004<\/p>\n
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27 FEBRUAR 2004, FREITAG, M\u00dcNCHEN, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n
Harvard: von Deutschland aus gesehen – 9<\/p>\n
\u201eSolche studienfremden Begabungen spielen bei der Auswahl der Studenten eine gr\u00f6\u00dfere Rolle als der herausragende Notendurchschnitt, den ohnehin fast alle Bewerber vorweisen k\u00f6nnen. Schon jetzt haben sich 20 986 Obersch\u00fcler f\u00fcr den Studienjahrgang 2007 beworben, aber nur 1650 von ihnen werden akzeptiert. Und deshalb achtet man auf Eigenschaften, die in Europa lange einen verzopften Klang hatten: F\u00fchrungsqualit\u00e4ten, Charakterst\u00e4rke, soziales Engagement, intellektuelle Neugier, Integrit\u00e4t und Reife.\u201c<\/p>\n
(Fortsetzung folgt)<\/p>\n
Wolfgang Koydl, \u201eZauberlehrlinge an der goldenen Schultafel\u201c, S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung, 15.01.2004<\/p>\n
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26 FEBRUARY 2004, THURSDAY, MUNICH, GERMANY.<\/p>\n
Harvard: the View from Germany – 8<\/p>\n
\u201cAnother delegation of German university deans learned just how important the selection of good students is when they spoke with Wolfgang Ketterle, who received a Novel Prize for physics and who teaches in Boston. \u2018They were stunned,\u2019 Wittig remembers, \u2018when they heard that Ketterle, this great man, himself reads all of the applications sent to him. Ketterle told the deans that this was one of his most important tasks, one that he couldn\u2019t leave to a secretary. The idea that it is the student who should be at the center of the educational process is more or less widespread throughout the whole system of American education, and that of course is true at Harvard. James Cooney, Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs is responsible for the roughly thirty Germans who have received McCloy scholarships to study at Harvard. \u2018We don\u2019t want students who are merely intelligent,\u2019 says Cooney. \u2018That would be really boring. We want young people with a variety of talents and interests.\u2019 Cooney himself studied in Berlin and is quite familiar with the differences between the German and American systems. \u2018Take this example,\u2019 he says, \u2018when I graduated from Harvard, there was a freshman who played the cello pretty well and sometimes gave concerts. His name was Yo Yo Ma, and he\u2019s now of course world-famous.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n
(To be continued)<\/p>\n
Wolfgang Koydl, \u201cZauberlehrlinge an der goldenen Schultafel\u201c, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, 15 January 2004<\/p>\n
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26 FEBRUAR 2004, DONNERSTAG, M\u00dcNCHEN, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n
Harvard: von Deutschland aus gesehen – 8<\/p>\n
\u201eWie wichtig die Auswahl guter Studenten ist, erfuhr eine andere Delegation deutscher Hochschul-Dekane bei einem Gespr\u00e4ch mit dem in Boston lehrenden Physik-Nobelpreistr\u00e4ger Wolfgang Ketterle. \u201aDie waren fassungslos, als sie h\u00f6rten, dass der gro\u00dfe Mann alle Bewerbungsunterlagen selbst liest\u2019, erinnerte sich Wittig. \u201aDas ist eine meiner wichtigsten Aufgaben\u2019, hatte Ketterle ihnen erkl\u00e4rt, das k\u00f6nne er nicht einer Sekret\u00e4rin \u00fcberlassen. Das Prinzip, dass der Sch\u00fcler im Mittelpunkt der Bildung stehen soll, zieht sich in mehr oder weniger ausgepr\u00e4gter Form durch das gesamte amerikanische Bildungssystem, und es gilt nat\u00fcrlich auch in Harvard. \u201aWir wollen keine Studenten, die einfach nur klug sind\u2019, meint James Cooney und macht dabei eine leicht wegwerfende Handbewegung. \u201aDas w\u00e4re doch langweilig. Wir wollen junge Leute mit einer Vielzahl von Talenten und Neigungen.\u2019 Cooney betreut als Direktor des Weatherhead Center for International Affairs auch die ungef\u00e4hr 30 deutschen McCloy-Stipendiaten, die in Harvard studieren, und weil er selbst in Berlin studiert hat, ist er mit den Unterschieden der beiden Systeme innig vertraut. \u201aSehen Sie her: Als ich in Harvard graduierte, da gab es einen Studienanf\u00e4nger, der ziemlich gut Cello spielte und manchmal Konzerte gab\u2019, sagt Cooney. \u201aSein Name war Yo Yo Ma, und heute ist er weltbekannt.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n
(Fortsetzung folgt)<\/p>\n
Wolfgang Koydl, \u201eZauberlehrlinge an der goldenen Schultafel\u201c, S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung, 15.01.2004<\/p>\n
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25 FEBRUARY 2004, WEDNESDAY, MUNICH, GERMANY.<\/p>\n
Harvard: the View from Germany – 7<\/p>\n
\u201cBernd Wittig, a German who has worked for more than ten years at MIT, Harvard\u2019s younger, more technically oriented sister university, recognizes that money alone is not enough, although it certainly provides a good feeling of independence from government influence. Not long ago he was visited by three German education ministers. At a luncheon with some MIT professors, they were curious about the secret of success of the American elite universities. \u2018The answer,\u2019 said Wittig, \u2018was unanimous: the students. Good students mean good professors. Good students mean good research.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n
(To be continued)<\/p>\n
Wolfgang Koydl, \u201cZauberlehrlinge an der goldenen Schultafel\u201c, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, 15 January 2004<\/p>\n
A friend commented, \u201cBut what the MIT professors couldn\u2019t know is that in Germany, students and professors – no matter how good they may be – are treated like serfs of the bureaucracy. Under conditions like that, are elite universities even possible? This is especially true at places like the Technical University of Munich.\u201d<\/p>\n
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25 FEBRUAR 2004, MITTWOCH, M\u00dcNCHEN, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n
Harvard: von Deutschland aus gesehen – 7<\/p>\n
\u201eGeld alleine aber reicht nicht aus, wie Bernd Wittig erkannt hat, obgleich es sicherlich ein gutes Gef\u00fchl der Unabh\u00e4ngigkeit gegen\u00fcber staatlicher Einflussnahme schafft. Der Deutsche arbeitet seit mehr als zehn Jahren am Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), welches gleichsam die j\u00fcngere, technische Schwester von Harvard ist. Unl\u00e4ngst hatte er drei deutsche Kultusminister zu Besuch, und bei einem gemeinsamen Mittagessen mit MIT-Professoren erkundigten sie sich neugierig nach dem Geheimnis der amerikanischen Elite-Unis: \u201aWie aus einem Mund haben die Amerikaner geantwortet: Die Studenten. Gute Studenten bedeuten gute Professoren. Gute Studenten bedeuten gute Forschung.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n
(Fortsetzung folgt)<\/p>\n
Wolfgang Koydl, \u201eZauberlehrlinge an der goldenen Schultafel\u201c, S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung, 15.01.2004<\/p>\n
Ein Freund bemerkte, \u201eAber die MIT-Professoren konnten nicht wissen, dass in Deutschland Studenten und Professoren – egal wie gut sie sind – wie Leibeigene der B\u00fcrokratie. Unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden, sind Eliteuniversit\u00e4ten \u00fcberhaupt m\u00f6glich? Dies ist an der Technischen Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen bestimmt der Fall.\u201c<\/p>\n
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24 FEBRUARY 2004, TUESDAY, MUNICH, GERMANY.<\/p>\n
Harvard: the View from Germany – 6<\/p>\n
\u201eWhat makes Harvard, with its 18,000 students and 2,500 faculty members, an outstanding institution is actually quite easy to define, and Richard Hunt has often done that: \u2018Its long history, money, its geographical location, Puritan frugality, and a certain amount of luck in the selection of its students, professors, and administrators.\u2019 Money certainly is important. With an endowment of nineteen billion dollars, Harvard is the wealthiest university in the world. For comparison: Munich\u2019s Ludwig Maximilian University (i.e., the University of Munich) had a budget of 353 million euros (447 million dollars) in 2002. In the past relatively bad economic year, Harvard\u2019s two \u2018money managers have by themselves made two billion dollars for the university in stock market investments.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne third of that sum goes into the current budget, the rest is reinvested \u2013 a kind of perpetual motion machine for making money. In addition there are between 100 and 150 ongoing fundraisers, the only purpose of which is to provide new sources of money and donations.\u201d<\/p>\n
(To be continued)<\/p>\n
Wolfgang Koydl, \u201cZauberlehrlinge an der goldenen Schultafel\u201c, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, 15 January 2004<\/p>\n
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24 FEBRUAR 2004, DIENSTAG, M\u00dcNCHEN, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n
Harvard: von Deutschland aus gesehen – 6<\/p>\n
\u201eEigentlich ist schnell aufgez\u00e4hlt, was Harvard mit seinen 18 000 Studenten und 2500 Lehrkr\u00e4ften zu einer herausragenden Institution macht, und Richard Hunt hat die Liste schon oft heruntergebetet: \u201aDie lange Geschichte, das Geld, die geografische Lage, puritanische Sparsamkeit, und eine Portion Gl\u00fcck bei der Auswahl der Studenten, der Professoren und der Administratoren.\u2019 Geld, ja Geld ist wichtig. Mit einem Stiftungsverm\u00f6gen von 19 Milliarden Dollar ist Harvard die reichste Hochschule der Welt. Zum Vergleich: M\u00fcnchens Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit\u00e4t hatte 2002 einen Etat von 353 Millionen Euro. Im vergangenen, relativ schlechten Jahr erwirtschafteten allein die beiden \u201aMoney Managers\u2019 von Harvard einen Ertrag von mehr als zwei Milliarden Dollar an der B\u00f6rse.<\/p>\n
Ein Drittel flie\u00dft in den laufenden Haushalt, der Rest wird reinvestiert \u2013 ein Perpetuum Mobile der Geldvermehrung. Hinzu kommen 100 bis 150 festangestellte Fundraiser, deren einzige Aufgabe es ist, neue Geldquellen und Spenden zu erschlie\u00dfen.\u201d<\/p>\n
(Fortsetzung folgt)<\/p>\n
Wolfgang Koydl, \u201eZauberlehrlinge an der goldenen Schultafel\u201c, S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung, 15.01.2004<\/p>\n
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