The Germans (ok, Prussians) invented the research university to make Germany strong, and put an end to invasions of the German homelands by French cardinals and Corsican upstarts.
Universities are all organized after the administrative hierarchy model. Just like armies.
The Germans (ok, Prussians) invented the research university to make Germany strong, and put an end to invasions of the German homelands by French cardinals and Corsican upstarts.
Universities are all organized after the administrative hierarchy model. Just like armies.
Even before the Germans, universities were generally in the business of training priests for the state church. Harvard was created to make sure that Massachusetts didn't have illiterate ministers.
The first university president to become US president, Woodrow Wilson, immediately got the US into a world war.
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The Germans (ok, Prussians) invented the research university to make Germany strong, and put an end to invasions of the German homelands by French cardinals and Corsican upstarts.
Universities are all organized after the administrative hierarchy model. Just like armies.
Even before the Germans, universities were generally in the business of training priests for the state church. Harvard was created to make sure that Massachusetts didn't have illiterate ministers.
The first university president to become US president, Woodrow Wilson, immediately got the US into a world war.