Schools and Universities

Abstract

“On the truth which Science has revealed, and is revealing, we build the new humanism of our age.“—Dr. BARNES, Bishop of Birmingham. R ETURNING in 1925 from a world tour, 1R Haber, concerned with the economic plight of Germany, her lack of raw materials, the inconsiderable increase of agricultural efficiency, delivered this message to the German people: “Man kann namlich den Reichtum nicht nur aus dem Boden holen, sondern auch aus dem menschlichen Verstande.“ He declared this ‘invisible item’ of the national balance sheet, the trained human intelligence, to be of vital importance for the resuscitation of his country. He claimed, and rightly, that the German system of higher education has proved more effective than that of any other country in producing men of creative achievement in technical science; they are the geese which lay the golden eggs. That it has not failed in pure science is amply evidenced by the list of Nobel prizemen. He disclaimed any intelligence for his own people higher than in other countries; he attributed the success to the method by which the intelligence has been trained and then utilised, France being inferior in the higher education, England lacking co-operation between university and industry, America being deficient in depth and patience though replete with cash and equipment.