Free spirit of inquiry is cornerstone of a varsity
WE have heard about "free" school before. What about a "free" university? Here, the word "free" carries a far deeper intellectual notion than the superficial idea of higher education as a commodity or a traded service with a hefty price tag. A good illustration, perh...
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| Summary: | WE have heard about "free" school before. What about a "free" university? Here, the word "free" carries a far
deeper intellectual notion than the superficial idea of higher education as a commodity or a traded service with
a hefty price tag.
A good illustration, perhaps, is the Free University of Brussels or Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB).
Established in the early 1800s, it was "independently" set up by a number of provinces that broke away from
the Kingdom of the Netherlands which formed the Belgian state in 1830. Then, they were already three state
universities in the country at Ghent, Liege and Leuven, but none in Brussels, though it had been promoted to
the rank of capital city. |
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