On The Loss And Rebuilding Of Chinese Modern University Spirit

University spirit is the measure of value and criteria of conduct, which is important and abstract for a university. But the particular meanings of the university spirit often suffer from transposition or even loss because of the influences from all factors in the multi-dimensional between the society and the university. Seeking and rebuilding university spirit is very important to advance a university and raise university idea to a higher level. Studying university spirit contributes to deepen the cognition of universities'essence and perfect the university theory, which also is a necessary supplement for material study. Studying university spirit also contributes to make the boundary between university and government, university and market, university and culture, which is useful to promote universities'reformation and build modern Chinese university.Firstly, writer studies the history of Chinese university spirit and western university spirit, and then explains connotation of university spirit. University spirit is a kind of value system and standard system, which is stable and .personal and formed through long-term selection, collection and absorption. University spirit includes humane spirit and scientific spirit, free spirit and independent spirit, critical spirit and innovative spirit.Then writer discusses the representations, reasons and essences about the loss of university spirit. The reasons include weakness of universities'history and negative influences of traditional culture, expansion of tool's ration and weakness of humane spirit, conflict between administration standard and learning standard, the negative influence of mass culture and self-indulgent of the university men. The essence of university spirit's loss is the new representations of former universities'conflicts. The original conflicts include university ideal and social reality, independence and dependence, traditions and transition, and useful knowledge and useless knowledge. Finally, writer tries to propose some opinion and ploy to rebuild university spirit. Above all, we should recognize university again correctly. Universities'essence is learning and teaching. Keeping universities'distance from government, market and mass culture. In the next place, rebuilding university spirit needs the harmony of inheritance and transcendence, interior system and exterior system. In the new era, university spirit should express outstanding and personality, pay more attention to open, tolerant, introspection, criticism, inheritance and innovation. We should construct exterior system in order to foster favorable circumstances, including ascertaining certain laws and system and fostering democratic atmosphere. At the same time, we also perfect interior system in order to return universities'spirit, including fostering the idea of academic freedom, strengthening the academic self-discipline, refining a school motto, establishing good style of a school, and university men's self-examination and actions.