SHNU: Recently, the academic paper entitled Humboldt 2010, Quo Vadis by SHNU professor Yu Ke from the College of Education was reprinted by Xinhua Digest (No. 4, 2010, page 112-117). The title of the paper was also put on the cover to highlight its academic value.
The paper was first published in Fudan Education Forum (No. 6, 2010) in honor of the 200th founding anniversary of Humboldt University of Berlin, which is regarded as "Mother of All Modern Universities" and "Modern Original". The following is the abstracts of the paper from the Fudan Education Forum.
On October 10, 2010, Humboldt University of Berlin celebrated her 200th anniversary and welcomed a new rector. It's both an inheritance and a new start. Nevertheless, the "Humboldt Memorandum 2010" as Crown-Achievement of 200th anniversary should have broaden vision to the future but was immersed in historical controversies; the new rector at his inauguration should have opened up perspectives for the future but appealed to consider Humboldt as reference. By analyzing actuality and history of higher education in Germany, the author points out that the Concept of Humboldt which was intended to establish a "Universitas litterarum" has never been truly realized in Germany, or even drifted further and further away, although University of Berlin was regarded as "Mother of All Modern Universities" and "Modern Original" to be pursued and reproduced worldwide. The Century-Frustration of the Concept of Humboldt derived precisely from the Century-Contradiction of Unity of Teaching and Research. On the way of balancing between Teaching and Research, the future of Humboldt 2010 is hard to forecast.
