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AN international congress of especial interest and significance was held at Darmstadt during July 31–August 9, under the auspices of the Technische Hochschule and with the full and generous co-operation of the American Military Government. For the first time in many years a large gathering of men of science and educationists were able to meet in Germany in free and open concourse. In spite of the difficulties of travel, more than fifty foreign visitors were able to be present, in addition to nearly five hundred Germans who came from all parts of Germany, including a small number from the Russian Zone. Fifteen British representatives were present. It was an experience which was of absorbing interest, especially for the insight which it gave into the present mental attitude of the teachers of science in Germany and into the physical conditions under which they must now carry on their work. The latter is the easier to describe. The universities and technische Hochschulen have suffered very severe losses of buildings and scientific equipment by the War, text-books are almost unobtainable, the teaching staff has been drastically reduced and, moreover, many—especially in the American Zone—are still awaiting trial by denazification courts. Those who are left are struggling, with a spirit which is wholly admirable, to provide a higher education to as many as possible of the greatly swollen numbers of students.
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KENDALL, J. International Congress for Technical Education. Nature 160, 721–722 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160721a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/160721a0