民主社会中大学教育的诉求——以《美国精神的封闭》为中心的考察

The demands of universities in democracy society——Investigation based on The Closing of America's Mind

民主社会中大学的存在是为了民主本身。基于大学面临的现实困境,以《美国精神的封闭》为中心对其民主教育观进行考察,探析出民主社会中的大学教育有以下诉求:民主制度本身并不是一切,大学必须担荷一种健全的文化精神与之配合;当今大学组织并不是真正意义上的"学术共同体",大学需要建立真正意义上的学术共同体以凝聚精神力量;大学对"通识教育"有盲目的误读与实践,对于通识教育中如何统合"一"与"多"的关系,拯救民主制度下"失败"的高等教育,经典著作有其肯綮之功用。最后提出从民主自身出发的视角来解决重建大学精神、完成民主教育的使命之策。

Universities in a democratic society exists for democracy itself. Based on the practical difficulties that universitiesfaced,and with The Closing of America＇s Mindto analyze its democratic education,this paper discovers the following demands of the university education in democratic society： democracy itself is not everything,the university must shoulder a sound cultural spirit with the university organization; the current universities are not an academic community in the true sense,and universities need to establish the true academic community to gather spirit strength; universities have misunderstood ＂general education＂and inappropriately practiced it; the classics can balance the relationship between＂one＂and＂many＂and save the＂failed＂higher education in democratic system. Finally,the paper puts forward that we should start from democracy itself to reconstruct university spirit,and to accomplish the mission of democratic education.