Given the contributions of the 18th and 19th century across a wide variety of disciplines, it is kind of surprising Germany doesnt have higher rated institutions. WWI and WWII did them in?
Maybe their talent is spread across too many separate establishments for any one place to qualify?Given the contributions of the 18th and 19th century across a wide variety of disciplines, it is kind of surprising Germany doesnt have higher rated institutions. WWI and WWII did them in?
Well, this was more than I would've expected. Thank you very much. The Timeline will not be televised.OK, here's a flight of fancy. I doubt it stands up to scrutiny, but it's really meant as an entertaining diversion that spurs discussion, rather than a serious treatise - otherwise I'd use sources more reliable than Wikipedia and a Bernard Cornwell novel's postscript...
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*Back when telephone directories were printed on dead trees, if you looked in the Yellow Pages in the UK under "Boring", it said "See Civil Engineering".
That is an important part. In higher education Germans are very egalitarian. Essentially everybody should be able to receive within his own abilities a comparable education everywhere. Of course single universities are considered especially good in a certain field, but not overall. The idea of Elite Universities, which receive more money than average, was not really welcomed by anybody, when it was raised a few years back.Maybe their talent is spread across too many separate establishments for any one place to qualify?
What about the University of Tokyo apart from Zurich it is the highest non-US/UK/Can university, its the premier university in a rich country that places a very high value on education. With the right funding and policy setup it should be able to match Oxford and Berkley. Alternatively give Tsinghua University a few decades.
Then again in the US/UK model of a few elite universities and a lot of crap ones better than the French/German model of lots of okay universities? I personally think it is but then I'm British and went to a good uni, maybe China will disagree.