Rethinking on the Education of Humanity in Higher Vocational Colleges

A heated discussion about higher vocational education in China has been made nationwide. But the study has always focused on how higher vocational education should be adapted to the socialistic market economy and how it should be energetically developed with the characteristics of its own. The paper presents that higher vocational education should not simply emphasize the training of workers and employees with basic professional knowledge and certain professional skills, which is regarded as the preliminary objectives in vocational education, but aim at training practice-oriented talents with comprehensive professional abilities and all-round qualities directly engaged in the forefront of production, service, technology and management. Based on the analysis of the present situations of higher vocational education in China, the paper argues that much emphasis should be laid on the necessity of education of arts and humanities with the strategies to implement them in higher vocational education.