Freedom University

Many education thinkers have many different opinions about the problems, which are that how to make the university that is to be recognized as a special organization under the complex social system not only serve the nation, but also keep its independent character, and how to make the university use academic freedom to promote social civilization and progress. The famous German Existentialism philosopher Karl Jaspers also thinks a lot about these problems and his thoughts about the university are wisdom, which has long and beneficial reflection.Karl Jaspers personally witnessed that German universities experienced from a relatively free situation to a relative unfree situation, so he had deep feelings about the freedom university. He concluded that a real free university would not only be about the university's independent right and its right to speak, but also be about the continuation of the university's free spirit. The important point that Karl Jaspers attached to is not the external form of freedom.Karl Jaspers, with using his existentialism as a breakthrough point, thoroughly discusses the freedom of university. He declares that higher education should pay attention to the development of people, which is consistent with the goal of higher education. Jaspers thinks that people can obtain corresponding and comprehensive development in a freedom environment and condition, accordingly, when the person's knowledge and spirit can develop in an all-round way, the universities'freedom atmosphere can continue to develop.Karl Jaspers'existentialism higher education has been studied by the method of literature search and history search, which describes the important significance about forming a real free university of his theories, namely the spirit communication, the proper attitude about the free of university, and balanced development of the different functions in the university. Meanwhile, by analyzing the true situation about the university in the age of Karl Jaspers, the writer explains the Karl Jaspers'thought of freedom university accurately.Karl Jaspers provides our nation with a new thinking angle about the university freedom. His higher education thought, that is, university limited autonomy, the importance of the country in the development of university and the importance of the communication between teachers and students in restoring university spirit plays an important role in forming and developing of a freedom university.