University Reform: The Trap of Utilitarianism and the Way Out

Author: Yang Guangqin
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: This is a powerful work that explores the challenges universities face in the new era and seeks a path for their harmonious development. With innovation as its mission, it confronts reality, demonstrating a strong sense of problem awareness to readers. It broadens the horizons of higher education research, enriches its content, and presents an expansive, well-supported, and deeply argued analysis. The author believes that the utilitarianism prevalent in universities today interferes with their normal objectives. Universities are institutions of education, research, and service, with the fundamental goal of imparting knowledge and fostering a spirit of innovation. However, an extreme pursuit of utilitarianism deviates from this goal, causing universities to lose their ability to create wisdom, spiritual strength, and moral courage, reducing them to mere service stations for social employment.