HIST 1088 Midterm: GLOBALIZATION II MIDTERM II STUDY GUIDE
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Class 9: the research university and the second industrial revolution. Who: wilhelm von humboldt created a comprehensive education system. What: humboldt"s model was based on two ideas of the enlightenment: the individual and the world citizen. Humboldt believed that the university (and education in general, as in the. Prussian education system) should enable students to become autonomous individuals and world citizens by developing their own reasoning powers in an environment of academic freedom. He is a prominent example of eliza marian butler"s thesis about the important role of ancient greek literature and art in 19th-century german thinking. Humboldt believed that study of the hellenic past would help the german national consciousness, reconciling it with modernity but distinguishing it from french culture, which he saw as rooted in the roman tradition. The vehicle for this task was to be the university. The cultural-historical background of the humboldtian model answered the demands of the.
