Concern of Modernization and the Mission of Higher Education

Abstract

While the modernization movement has led to profound changes in politics, economy and culture around the world, human development is also facing unprecedented difficulties. The concern about modernization puts forward the value for modernization orientation of the times. Higher education must transcend the realistic culture with instrumental rationality as the core, and the most fundamental must be first. Only by transcending its own narrowness and constructing the educational philosophy view of the integration of science education and humanities education, can it give full play to its cultural criticism and literature. With the function of creation, it undertakes the historical mission of value orientation for modernization.