Scanning the Ideas of Establishing World-class Universities in China——The Enlightenment of Hutchins' Higher Educational Thoughts

Establishing world class universities needs their ideas at first.Hutchins thought the whole social education,especially higher education, was on the basis of liberal education. Liberal education plays an important role in developing forever humanity, cultivating students' excellent personalities and enhancing the cohesive force in universities.At the same time,today,with the prompt development of society, liberal education could compromise and even syncretize with vocational education, which proposes the enlightenment of the ideas of establishing world class universities in China, for example, Clinging to forever liberal education in universities and the personalities of universities and their mother country and dealing with their relationship between liberal education and vocational education.