论本科教育的目标与通识教育的价值

Research on the Aim of Undergraduate Education and the Value of General Education

从学生的角度,特别是学生认识自我的角度阐述了本科教育的目标。这一目标就是帮助学生发现自我。通识教育作为普遍知识的教育、融会贯通的教育、人类文化遗产的教育,可以最好地帮助学生实现这一目标。为了实现学生发现自我的目标,通识教育与专业教育还具有不同的价值。而要实现这一目标,"独立精神、自由思想"是其基本的,也是最重要的前提。只有使本科教育聚焦于这样基本的、本真的目标,才能使我们的教育取得最好的效果和质量。

This paper elaborated on the aim of undergraduate education from the perspective of student, setting forth the argument that the aim is to help students to find themselves. General education is suitable to help students to realize this aim. The paper also expounded different values of general education and specialized education for student＇ s self-discovery. In order to realize the aim, independent spirit and freedom of thinking is the essential and prerequisite condition. Only by focusing on such basic and real aim, can our education achieve best effect and quality.