Gerian fication
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repulsion of Russia and the east- ,liberal arts such as philosophy,
n a wt tit s nuaes and hist ry, but also
e c riit l c mathematies and natural sciences.
like the reaction to the mighty Nowadays, the latter two form
chalke tseof American civiization S oparate dep>irtments, and the law
ar e teted ground. Indeed, the hool srew to beco-te a depart-
whole of German cultural lit m of litw, economics, and politi-
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The German unisa s tunti l is it n t st t founded
th, b- iinning of tsr lit( itt . s totatd te d f te 09th cen-
eansist of fisis r n s stu wetc eats. it pabsorbed
theo "y, ltan-, m entsci tat ph- in ti tsrrsaeok of the univer-I
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DEMONSTRATION-Members of the Communist Youth Organization of the East Berlin University
march on Marx-Engels Plaza (Shelled street sign still bears the old name). Banners in foreground
bear slogans like "The capital of Germany-meeting place of the united German youth." Placard
in background shows boss of East German Communists, Walter Ulbricht.
TJHE OBJECTIVE of instruction The manner in which he To the social sciences (all.
at the universities is not only achieves that standard is in his spheres of the arts and sociology)
to impart a high degree of knowl- own hands. He is completely free the special task has been assigned
edge in the various spheres of to of interpreting those teachings of
learning, but also to bring the stu- a) select the university ac- Marxism - Leninism which now
dents into close contact with sci- cording to his own wishes and rank as science. An extensive ap-
entific problems with a purpose to change it whenever he de- paratus of supervision watches
to harmonizing theoretical knowl- sires, over the ideological fidelity of a
edge with actual research. b) to attend lectures at his particular science to the party 1
They are thus taught to form own discretion, line and simultaneously sees to
their own judgment and to carry c) to decide on the date of it that the plans of the state are
out independent scientific re- his final examinations, after fulfilled.
search. Similar to the American having completed the mini-
system, the instruction is divided mum number of semesters as JtHE UNIVERSITY system in~
into lectures, exercises, seminars specified in the examination East Germany is close to the
and practical work. In his lec- regulations, Soviet model, and all students are
tures, the teacher presents to the d) to select his lectures and obliged to carry out a "sociological
student the scientific material in professors basic study" in Marxism-Leninism
question within specified bound- Th and dialectic and historical ma-
aries; in the exercises, teachers aidesawarknin the sturdoents i- eduaion The notion of genuine
and students work together on tellectual faculties, inculcates in education in the sense of a "stu-
some practical problem related to him the strength, of will and im generale' is being abandoned
the lecture material. The seminars character which are essential to favorneof specialized studies.
provide an opportunity for selected the academic man. Instead of the traditional divi-
advanced students to do original "Sin of the scholastic year in se-
mesters, there is only one, lasting
HE INTELLECTUAL develop- f or ten months, with extensive
especially in the natural sciences
andmedcin, srve asan n- ment in East Germany has drill and supervision in the form.
troduction to laboratory and clini- folowd different principles of collective learning by heart of
ticton tThe ruling regime, like that of prescribed theses.
cal v-tk. the Soviet Union itself, uses all The children of workers and
stuentitsloi'human betugsnofheasTsaidn of members ofnth
r'JHE IDEA and the purpose of means at its iosl to urn th peasants and of members of the
academic freedom are to train students io' human beings of party are given preference in the
the student to make independent a new type. Science of the new matter of studies. The "advanced
decisions to his ow n responsibiliy. type, too, is abandnin- Wittern intelligentsia" which the regime
dsraditions and renoiig tho s producing in its universities is,.
His attendence at the lectures despised "objectivism of boor- intended to replace at the earliest
is never checked as in some othir seois science" possible moment the bourgeois
countries. All that is required of Scientific effort is no longer suscialists who cannot at present
him is that, wtt-n tking an oal desoted to ascertaining the truth.I be sard.
esasmntio tt tne end of thc The task of science has now be- However, most of these East
it-c" " e"a""""- tinh come that of proving and spread- German studetots are etoduring
nations or degi , ,xaminations, he ing the dogmas and concT ptions their fate in embittered frustra-
must give proof of a hieh stand- of Marxism - Leninism on party tson-many it a frame at mind of
aid of kulied-er pcrfrrmnce, bines, in the course of both teach- increasing resignation or even
od scientific appreciation. ing and research. despair-yet all in the unshakable
The natural sciences which in belief that the hour of reunion and
Soviet phraseology are concerned revenge will strike.
with "representing matter in the Thus, the puzzling fate of Ger-
course of evolution" are guided in many, torn between ascendencyy
so far as a philosophic starting , and despair and ripped into three
point is concerned by Communist hermetically closed parts, is also
ideology, which also supplies the demonstrated by its current two -
key to their problems. systems of higher education.
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