论新中国初期高等教育中的“教育为人民服务”思想

On the Notion of "Education Serving the People" in the Primary Stage of Modern Chinese Higher Education

新中国成立初期,党在教育领域提出了"教育为人民服务"的思想。其涵义主要有三:工农是服务的核心;工农是受教育的主体;国家经济建设是服务的方向。所以提出这一思想,根本原因在于当时教育的状况,其中最主要的是高等教育的现状与实现为人民服务的要求相去太远。为此在高等教育领域采取了倾斜招生政策、解决实际困难、创办新型大学和改造师生思想等措施,以落实"教育为人民服务"这一思想。

In the primary stage after the founding of People＇s Republic of China, Chinese Communist Party brought forth the notion of ＂education serving the people. ＂ It was elaborated as follows. Educa tion should mainly serve the workers and peasants; workers and peasants are the main targets of edu cation; and education should be oriented toward the economic construction. The background in which the notion was put forward was that the then higher education could not meet the goal of serving the people. The measures taken included the preferential enrollment policy, solving the practical difficul ties, initiating new universities and remolding the notions of the teachers and students.