Research On The General Education Of The Teaching-research Universities

General education has always had great importance to ancient Chinese tradition; this tradition has extended to the Republic, but to the founding of the PRC, as a result of the Soviet Model introduction, general education completely removed from the stage of Chinese higher education, the professional education was acting the role which outshined others. After the reform and opening up, as a result of comprehensive implementation of the culture and quality education, general education brings to people's attention day by day.General education is one of the ideals of university education. The implement of education depends on courses; general education is not an exception. This is a process of transformation from ideal to reality. So general education in university education is really to be achieved, it is necessary to study general education philosophy, and also need to explore education courses. This article takes the Nanjing normal university and Donghua university as cases, has a limited view of, in order to be able to knows the general education implementation situation in the teaching-research universities.Comparative analysis is a better way to grasp the essence of things. From vertical (teaching-research universities and research universities) and horizontal (different types of teaching-research universities), the paper compares two levels general education which carried out by the teaching-research universities. Through such comparisons, the author discovers some problems when the teaching-research universities implement general education. Then based on the advanced experience from foreign universities, the paper gives some thinking on the teaching-research universities how to implement general education.