A Study On The Rationality Of Modern Education

Max Weber's paradox of rationality and Habermas's communicative rationality about rebuilding modernity provide a thought of understanding modern education's dilemma , seeking a possible solution, and rebuilding modern education's rationality for us. With Habermas's thought about "understanding", this thesis uses the method of "understanding" in a hermeneutics for reference, and finds the resemblance of China's andwestern countries' educational modernity-- wisdom of life, which ispersued by educational modernity through "understanding of cultures" of educational modernity in China and western countries.Then this thesis deduces logically an idea of ecological rationality from "understanding of culture" and "wisdom of life". It thinks ecological rationality may provide a solution which dissolves modern education's dilemma and may be regarded as a universal rationality of modern education because it embodies a spirit of humanism.Last, This thesis discusses the problems about ecological existing and ecological development of modern education.