The Study Of Comparison Between Jiaxia Academy And Academy Of Plato

Founded by Tian Qi regime and hosted by private master,JixiaAcademyis the first institution of higher education inancient Chinese and the largest institutional for supporting persons during the Warring States period.On one hand,through training and selecting the intellectual,it provides plenty of power for political needs;on the other hand,because ofits capacity and free academic atmosphere,JixiaAcademy has become a hotbed of Chinese Learning Center and the creative thought of war in the period,the academic prosperity in the contention of a hundred schools of thought in ancientChina told us,academic thought has experienced its golden age here.Plato,the famous philosopher,thinker and educator in ancient Greek,created Academy in 387 BC,as a practice base of his education thought.The Createdof Academy,not only is the turning point in his life,but alsoa memorable thing in the history of science in the west.In pursuit of truth,Academy carrying on the humanities and natural science,to be the education and research centre for scientific research in the Greek world,there are more than nine hundred years for its history and it become the pioneer of modem western universities directly.JixiaAcademy and Academy of Plato were created about at the same time,the school-running ideas,significant social roles and far-reaching historical influences make both of themto be the pioneer of Chinese and western higher education,the comparative studies between the two has its historical significance and realistic significance.Through comparing the similarities and differences between JixiaAcademy and Academy of Plato and analyzing the reasons of their differences,we can have a clear understanding of the Chinese and western universities development;afterintroduced the ideas of their wisdom,summariedsimilarities and differences between Chinese and western academic in the "first times",we can have ideas andinspirations to reform and create new traditional Chinese academic.Although created at the close period,JixiaAcademy and Academy of Plato based on different society,Chinese and western society is experiencing different "troubled times",one is in the nations competitive starcraft and have the trend of unified;another has suffered from dominance to decline as a result of the war.Different societies offer different backgroundsfor them,both in terms of specific and historical influence of running are different.Whereas,as the pioneer of Chinese and western higher education,they are free and open for academy,they have academic autonomy and both social functions and cultural functions,they have great similarities in the way of affectingthe development of Chinese and western culture.Both in the ground,with a profound history,culture,education,philosophy of various factors,by comparing the two we can conclude what the contemporary higher education development need,provide ideas and inspirations for contemporary higher education reform and development and the inheritance and development of the Chinese culture.Afterthousands years,they still shine with the light of wisdom,provide us with civilization and wisdom of the ancients.It's regret to see that the development of China's higher education has its long history tradition and the sources of the spirit,but obliged to introduce the foreign modern university system and ideas to start again.The development of higher education reform in contemporary China not only need to face the world,face the future,but also need to thrive from the source of the Chinese civilization "living water" to inheritand innovate our culture,absorbcultural nutrition through history and strong the foundation of the development.