Under The Humanistic View Of University Education: From Newman To Heqin

Humanities Education has occupied an important part in university since the university wasborn of. With the science technique expanding gradually, the traditional humanities sciencecomes across challenges. Since the1970s the negative influence of science technique and allkinds of crisis and challenges the human are faced with have become so serious that HumanitiesEducation is attached importance again. During the long development of history, HumanitiesEducation experiences up and down many times, but it still takes an important part in universityhistory.Newman was a world famous schoolmaster in higher education domain in the19thcentury.His education ideas generated tremendous influence on higher education of western andafterworld. Newman’s education ideas is still suffered continuous pursue by people now,especially when the universities come across spirit deficiency nowadays. Hutchins was Theworld famous thinker and reformer of higher education in American in the middle of20thcentury,he has rich and unique university ideas. The university ideas of Newman and Hutchins have highcorresponds and delicate differences. Those corresponds and differences constituted theirconnect and surpass relation.Liberal Education is the core of Newman’s humanities education ideas. It expresses in thediscussion of knowledge, learn, philosophy and literature. With the contrast of Newman andHumboldt’s education ideas, their ideas have the same and difference aspects. General Educationis the core of Hutchins’s education ideas. It expresses in the humanity viewpoint of perennialism,aim viewpoint of develop perfect men, education viewpoint of metal humanity. Clearing up theirhumanities education ideas it is found that they have corresponding core viewpoints. It expressesin protection tradition, agrees with the intelligence and reason, pursues of the universality andperpetual knowledge, the same core of liberal education and general education ect. The aspect ofHutchins surpassing Newman expresses from imparting knowledge to developing intelligence,from training gentlemen to cultivating perfect men and co up with the learning society ect.Analyzing Newman and Hutchins from the history of Humanities Education, exploring theireducation ideas and inspirations to universities nowadays, It can rethink universities very well.Universities should guard the culture character, persevere in the elitism and construct thelearning society.