Perhaps the most radical aspect of his plan took place on a general curricular level: anticipating the birth of the great research universities of the future, he knocked Greek and Latin from their privileged pedestal, and called for a far more practical and concrete course of study that gave pride of place to the teaching of math and experimental science, the latter in a laboratory setting. This new type of pedagogy, he insisted, would finally allow experimentation to take precedence over received ideas.
