Origin:
Modern universities around the world, which originated in the early19th century, refer to new universities after the Enlightenment and rationalism transformation, especially the University of Berlin founded by Humboldt in Germany. It is generally believed that the establishment of 1809 Berlin University in Germany marks the birth of a university in the modern sense. The fundamental difference between modern universities and medieval universities lies in the transformation of university functions.
Medieval universities were places to impart existing knowledge, excluding research and discovery of knowledge from universities, while modern universities took scientific research as their main function, increased human knowledge and trained scientific workers as their main tasks, and respected "academic freedom" and "unity of teaching and research".
The spirit of Berlin University promoted the development and prosperity of German science, and Germany became the center of world science from the beginning of19th century to the beginning of 20th century. This idea has also had a far-reaching impact on higher education in the world and laid the foundation for the formation of modern universities.
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University mission
The mission of the university under the domination of the university concept requires that the students trained by the university should be noble and educated people first, which is in line with the essence of the university. This mission is to cultivate students' complete personality, purify their minds, cultivate their conduct and cultivate their ability to criticize things, not just to educate them professionally.
As Newman, a famous British educational theorist, realized: "From the argument of utilitarianism, we can see the deadly enemy of real education. Under the guidance of utilitarian theory, the new university pays more attention to professional training than cultural requirements, exams and results rather than psychological processes, and passively obtains facts rather than general psychological activities. "
Newman's "new university" runs counter to university logic and takes market economy logic and political logic as its mission.
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