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  • The essential freedom to discover new information, to do research, known as Lehrfreiheit, is one of these influences that is still profoundly visible here ....

    Dr. Adriane Ivey 1836

  • Actually, the Lehrfreiheit was the idea that new knowledge was valuable whether or not it made a contribution to everyday life; the counter part for students was Lernfreiheit, the freedom to learn what one desired.

    Dr. Adriane Ivey 1836

  • It was a familiar point in the great days of German higher education, during the half century preceding World War I, that a close affinity between Lehrfreiheit and Lernfreiheit was rec - ognized, though for the student the freedom to learn assumed characteristics not generally to be found in other countries.

    ACADEMIC FREEDOM DAVID FELLMAN 1968

  • They removed all restrictions from the _Lehrfreiheit_, or professional freedom of instruction, while at the same time they preserved the right of the state to control indirectly the quality of university instruction by means of state-examinations for pastors, teachers, lawyers, physicians and officeholders.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various

  • Lehrfreiheit of the student as a complement to the Lehrfreiheit of the professor.

    The Centennial of the University of Virginia, 1819-1921 1922

  • It was at Halle, too, that Gundling, in 1711, discussed "the office of a university" and laid down the modern university theory of _Lehrfreiheit und Lernfreiheit_ -- that is, freedom from outside interference in teaching and studying, both teachers and students to be free to follow the truth wherever the truth might lead, and without reference to what preconceived theories might be upset thereby.

    The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization Ellwood Patterson Cubberley 1904

  • Much of the American higher education system can be traced back to Germany where the ideas of Lehrfreiheit and Lernfreiheit were originated (xii Westrneyer).

    Dr. Adriane Ivey 1836

  • -- Über Theologische Lehrfreiheit auf den Evangelischen Universitäten.

    History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology 1868

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