ABSTRACT
Reform is always the creation of new usages. The reform of higher education cannot be limited, nor can even its main features be limited, to the correction of abuses. Any reform movement which is limited to correcting slovenly or slipshod abuses in our university will lead inevitably to a reform which is equally slovenly. An institution is a machine in that its whole structure and functioning must be devised in view of the service it is expected to perform. German science is prodigious; therefore the German university is a model institution, because it engendered the prodigy. Principle of education: the school, when it is truly a functional organ of the nation, depends far more on the atmosphere of national culture in which it is immersed than it does on the pedagogical atmosphere created artificially within it. A condition of equilibrium between this inward and outward pressure is essential to produce a good school.
