Self-reflection and Value Reconstruction of Enlightenment Function of Higher Education
Enlightenment is embedded in the basic functions of higher education,using various stages of talent cultivation as carriers,and through the production and dissemination of advanced knowledge,pursuing effective spiritual life,thereby helping to liberate the cognition of social members.Therefore,the true function of enlightenment requires advanced knowledge and speculative training to be achieved,with the aim of enabling modern society's people to have the ability to identify hypocrisy and overcome blind obedience.Although enlightenment was initially was reflected in preschool education,the progress of modern civilization has made members of society realize that the release of the function of enlightenment cannot be achieved solely through educational activities at a certain stage,and the objects of enlightenment are not limited to young children,but continuous cognitive construction activities beyond age and school age.The most noteworthy issue is that in the process of modernization,humans have relied on natural science and technology to dispel primitive superstitions and natural ignorance,but have also developed a belief in the technology of conquering the world,losing rationality and imagination.In history,the function of enlightenment was gradually realized through the dissemination of intellectual life and advanced knowledge.Classical higher education used the philosophy of"love for intelligence"as a means to open up the spiritual space of people and free them from fear of the unknown world.On the one hand,medieval universities expanded the scope of intellectual enlightenment,but on the other hand,they also faced the crisis of mental collapse under the influence of theology.The rigidity of universities led to a decline in the function of enlightenment,resulting in many"anti-enlightenment"phenomena.In modern society,the convenience of knowledge acquisition methods and the expansion of technological boundaries have made the cost of acquiring knowledge lower for learners.Under the control of performance-based education,higher education has become a means of obtaining academic qualifications in the system.The function of talent cultivation is aimed at employment,and learners find it difficult to feel the pleasure brought by the improvement of cognitive patterns.The result of various types of education shifting towards exam skill training is that professional knowledge cannot be effectively respected and accelerates the spread of anti-intellectualism.In the era of popularization of higher education,due to the lack of enlightenment function,members of society face spiritual emptiness and anxiety.Therefore,higher education itself needs to be reenlightened in terms of talent cultivation goals and scientific research direction,educating members of society to acquire the ability to feel the real world,resisting blind obedience and arrogance,and returning to the function of enlightening the mind and spreading rationality.
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