Conception and Functional Transformation of Higher Education

Higher education in this country is restrained by backward conceptions and incomplete functioning which express themselves in three aspects: deviating from the internal law of education, stressing generality and uniformity and neglecting individuality and diversity; overlooking scientific and thinking innovation of high education and its function of guidance and demonstration; more emphasis being placed on innovation rather than on creation. The result is that higher education is far behind the times and stays at the levels of instrumentality and practicality. Facing the challenge of scientific revolution and knowledge economy, the old conception should be changed and the training of creative power stressed. A new relationship between inheritance and creation should be set up.