How universities lost their way.
As philosopher Arthur Lovejoy, a founder of the
@AAUP, observed: "The distinctive social function of the scholar’s trade cannot be fulfilled, if those who pay the piper are permitted to call the tune."
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(Wilhelm von) Humboldt’s Gift | SAPIR Journal
The idea of the modern university is often associated with the name Wilhelm von Humboldt, the Prussian philosopher of education at whose in...