Higher education plays a very key role for the rest of us at a time in life. We, with high excitement and expectancy, leave our own hometowns to a new world. The higher school not only gives us warm nests shielding off outside unrelated communities, but also provides us a comprehensive schedule to learn Chinese lessons inside their great walls. During these years we can learn many things in a liberal education, supplying us with a solid basic education and one or more sets of competence in dealing with all kinds of tests and details of a special field, but the organizational grooves and narrow routines in academic education are increasingly diminishing the motivation and dynamic of Chinese teachers and students.

As we know, a good education should train students to think for themselves, but the value outlook of traditional education pays much attention to the examination system. A student can or can’t gain credits and graduate late is due to weather he or she can pass the all kinds of tests designed by school or other institutions. So what has to be learnt in many higher schools is rigidly laid down by a syllabus, which lowers the standards of learning and teaching as well. Thus not only can’t motivate students to learn Chinese widely, but also deprive the teacher of all freedom. Another problem in higher education is that there is less relationship between the theories and practices. What we have been learning Chinese now in a lot of time is the knowledge of the theories, which maybe underlie the students of the basic knowledge, but at the same time, it also makes students lose a lot of opportunities to discover and implement patterns by themselves in practice, and in the end leads them to be unfamiliar to realistic development of social environment. The third problem maybe is that many schools pay more and more emphasis on competence education. Commitment has been diminishing day and day. Now the highlight among higher school students is how to complete their needed course and earn credits. The students, as well as the school, are devoting their energies to the pursuit of material or personal development in now or future, and commitment seems increasingly disappear in their daily life. To serve for others or society seems of service seems a dated idealism.

In my opinion, higher education should offer outstanding and specialized talents for society, and act as the home of mankind’s spirit as well.

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