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Collegiality and Complexity: Humboldt's Relevance to British Universities Today
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Elton, Lewis – Higher Education Quarterly, 2008
The two fundamental features of Humboldt's prescription for the new University of Berlin in 1810--research-like learning as a collaboration of teachers and students, and academic freedom of research and teaching (based essentially on an intuitive, but deep understanding of complexity theory)--are as valid now as they were 200 years ago in spite of…
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