Humboldt University

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“Whatever does not spring from a man’s free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very being, but still remains alien to his true nature; he does not perform it with truly human energies, but merely with mechanical exactness.”
—Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt (1767–1835)

“It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)