There have been many philosophers throughout time who’ve had ideas and opinions about the purpose and proper structure of the education systems. Two major examples would be Alfred North Whitehead and Wilhelm von Humboldt. This paper will present a succinct version of both of their thoughts on the integration of research and education within the system of universities, as well as a juxtaposition of their positions.
In “Universities and their Function,” Whitehead writes that “[t]he universities are schools of education, and schools of research.” (Whitehead, “Universities,” 2). For the universities to properly serve these functions, they need to cultivate imagination in the students and in the faculty. In fact, he states that “A university is imaginative or it is nothing”(Whitehead, “Universities,” 2). This imagination comes from fruitful interaction between the students and faculty. However, for the faculty to be able to teach with imagination, they must learn themselves with imagination. Thus comes the importance of imaginative teachers and researchers. Whitehead writes “Do you want your teachers to be imaginative? Then encourage them to research. Do you want your researchers to be imaginative? . . . Make your researchers explain themselves to …show more content…
Linked in this way, their distinctive and separate existences can assume a new and superior form. “ (Von Humboldt, “University Reform”, 248). The distinction comes in the next line: “The utility of such a separation rests much less on the characteristic activities of each of the institutions than on the distinctiveness of their form and on their relations with the state. “ (Von Humboldt, “University Reform”,
In “Universities and their Function,” Whitehead writes that “[t]he universities are schools of education, and schools of research.” (Whitehead, “Universities,” 2). For the universities to properly serve these functions, they need to cultivate imagination in the students and in the faculty. In fact, he states that “A university is imaginative or it is nothing”(Whitehead, “Universities,” 2). This imagination comes from fruitful interaction between the students and faculty. However, for the faculty to be able to teach with imagination, they must learn themselves with imagination. Thus comes the importance of imaginative teachers and researchers. Whitehead writes “Do you want your teachers to be imaginative? Then encourage them to research. Do you want your researchers to be imaginative? . . . Make your researchers explain themselves to …show more content…
Linked in this way, their distinctive and separate existences can assume a new and superior form. “ (Von Humboldt, “University Reform”, 248). The distinction comes in the next line: “The utility of such a separation rests much less on the characteristic activities of each of the institutions than on the distinctiveness of their form and on their relations with the state. “ (Von Humboldt, “University Reform”,