洪堡“科研与教学相结合”的原则在知识经济和高等教育大众化的新形势下似成旧章，而伯顿·克拉克教授在对德、英、法、美、日五国科研和研究生教育的结构进行深入比较分析的基础上，提出并论证了在大学建立科研一教学一学习连结体的主张，有力地保护了科研在大学职能中的地位。但是新的连结体并不是洪堡心目中的连结，而是不管在内涵与外延上都较洪堡原则有了极大的拓展与提升。“,”The Humboldt＇s principle of combination of research and teaching like the old chapter in the new situation of the knowledge economy and the mass higher education, and Burton Clark Professor proposed and demonstrated the idea of establish the union body of research-teaching-learning at the university based on the comparative analysis the structure of research and graduate education-depth of five countries of German, English, French, American and Japanese, which effectively protecting the functions position of research at the university. But the new link is not Humboldt＇s, but no matter, both in content and extension of the principle has been dramatically changed in the expansion and upgradehigher than Humboldt＇s principle.