BILDUNG and Innovation — a Contradictio in Adjecto for Today’s University Education

Dieter Lenzen, Free University of Berlin
2010

I do think that the terms Bildung and innovation can be contradictory, at least they express the inner  conflict felt by a person, who is responsible for change in an institution — the university — and therefore  for innovation and, at the same time, knows how frequently and in what manner this task has been  deliberated in the history of the philosophy of education. To begin with,