A Preliminary Study On William Raineyharper's Thoughts And Practice Of Higher Education

This paper focuses on William RaineyHarper's main contents of education thought and the enlightenment of Chinese higher education development .William RaineyHarper is the famous higher educationist, religious historians of American. He lives in the the "revolution period" of second industrial revolution in United States, and also the fast developing period of higher education. As the first President of Chicago,through bold reform and innovation in the city of pioneer,Harper created brilliant development and made great contribution in university of Chicago.This paper is discussed as follows:1.University democracy thought and serving social concept: he pointed out that university should implement democratic management and take the responsibility of serving the society.2.The discipline construction and reform of university: it contains the first priority of specific research, undergraduate subsection course system, academic freedom and other teaching reform.3.Trough ontacting our present higher education , we explore Harper's higher education ideas for reference.Harper's idea of higher education is rooted of American society.we can go through the views and opinions of his discussion to get more comprehensive knowledge of construction of colleges, becauss of the similarities between universities in American and China. After that,higher education will play a better role in political,economic and other fields.