(Eine Deutsche Fassung steht weiter unten. German version below.)<\/p>\n
31 JANUARY 2007, WEDNESDAY, DUSSELDORF, GERMANY<\/p>\n
German \u201cElite\u201d Universities and the Famous Technical University of Munich? \u2013 1<\/p>\n
\u201dAt the end of the nineteenth century, German universities were still \u2013 for the entire world \u2013 model centers of achievement in human thinking. Today, though, the situation looks a little different. In Germany, hardly anything remains of Humboldt\u2019s idea of \u2018the basic unity of research and teaching.\u2019 When people speak of the current \u2018excellence initiative\u2019 at German universities, what they really mean is a bare-knuckled competition for government subsidies. Perhaps, for German universities, that\u2019s the only way out of the circumstances they find themselves in: the crowded lecture halls, the badly equipped libraries, the whole general crisis in German education. However, going down the road of the \u2018excellence initiative\u2019 means that the human spirit falls by the wayside. An essay by Thomas Palzer.\u201d (To be continued)<\/p>\n Source: Thomas Palzer, \u201eBloss Gehirn statt Geist?\u201c, \u201eKulturzeit\u201c broadcast of 9 January 2007 over 3Sat German-Austrian-Swiss Public Television.<\/p>\n \u201cI feel like someone who has been attacked and injured by a group of thugs. You forgive the thugs, but at the same time you have to warn other people about them.\u201d \u2013 George Sand<\/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 Novel: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/revision\/<\/p>\n —————————————————————————-<\/p>\n 31 JANUAR 2007, MITTWOCH, D\u00dcSSELDORF, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n Deutsche \u201eElite\u201c-Unis und die ber\u00fchmte Technische Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen? \u2013 1<\/p>\n \u201eDeutsche Universit\u00e4ten galten Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts noch als vorbildliche Denkzentren f\u00fcr die ganze Welt. Das sieht heute anders aus. Von der Humboldtschen Idee der “Einheit von Forschung und Lehre” ist kaum noch etwas \u00fcbrig. Wer von “Exzellenzinitiative” spricht, der meint einen knallharten Wettbewerb um millionenschwere F\u00f6rdergelder. Angesichts \u00fcberf\u00fcllter H\u00f6rs\u00e4le, schlecht ausgestatteter Bibliotheken und Bildungsnotstand ist das vielleicht der einzige Ausweg. Aber auf der Strecke bleibt dabei der Geist. Ein Essay:\u201c (Fortsetzung folgt.)<\/p>\n Quelle: Thomas Palzer, \u201eBlo\u00df Gehirn statt Geist?\u201c, \u201eKulturzeit\u201c-Sendung von 09.01.2007, 3Sat.<\/p>\n \u201eIch f\u00fchle mich wie eine Person, die von einer Gruppe Schl\u00e4ger angegriffen und verletzt wird. Man vergibt die Schl\u00e4ger, aber man muss andere Menschen vor ihnen warnen.\u201c \u2013 George Sand<\/p>\n \u201eIch liebe (mein Land) mehr, als alle anderen L\u00e4nder der Welt, und genau aus diesem Grund bestehe ich auf das Recht, es ewig zu kritisieren.\u201c – James Baldwin<\/em><\/p>\n Novel: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/revision\/<\/p>\n ===========================================<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (Eine Deutsche Fassung steht weiter unten. German version below.) 31 JANUARY 2007, WEDNESDAY, DUSSELDORF, GERMANY German \u201cElite\u201d Universities and the Famous Technical University of Munich? \u2013 1 \u201dAt the end of the nineteenth century, German universities were still \u2013 for the entire world \u2013 model centers of achievement in human thinking. Today, though, the situation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[383],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tu-munich"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n