Universities are a kind of schools that implement higher education, including comprehensive universities, specialized universities and colleges. It is an organization with unique functions, an institution of higher learning that inherits, studies, integrates and innovates advanced academic knowledge, and is interrelated with social, economic and political institutions.
It is not only the product of the development of human culture to a certain stage, but also a unique culture gradually formed on the basis of long-term school-running practice through historical accumulation, self-efforts and external environmental influence.
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Universities have a history of thousands of years. At first, it mainly developed from Germany, Britain and other countries. China Modern University originated in the West.
Modern western universities have gradually evolved from European medieval universities, British universities, German universities and then American universities. Universities in any era are creative inheritors of previous universities, not deniers.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-University