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The British system adopted the German
model and adapted it to the feature of university’s professor. The English
institutions provided the idea and expertise for diverse establishments
which all together were adapted to serve a variety of purposes and to answer
the needs of distinct classes of society (Oxford and Cambridge, where the
gentleman was educated). The “pyramid of prestige” of the British
structure system, according to A. H. Halsey would be reproduced by other
countries for their own systems, such as in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
The United States, with its generalist educational teaching systems,
differed greatly from the German model, but derived from it the idea that a
complete university could only exist when is dedicated to post grad
education and research. |