Practical Scientific Knowledge Education based on Herbert Spencer’s “What Knowledge is of Most Worth?”

Yun-Na Liu,Kang Li,Arlis Mclean

doi:10.12973/eurasia.2017.00836a

Abstract

For industrial structure upgrading and modern service industry developing, China will need a large number of high-quality talents to contribute to new industrialization. China's higher education is important for cultivating high-quality, multi-skilled and well-trained talents. “What Knowledge is of most Worth?” that raised by Herbert Spencer is one of the most typical questions for education. After investigation, this study researches 2 questions based on China’s huge demand of well-trained, high-skilled, and application-oriented talents under current economic development: 1) “What Knowledge is of most Worth?” Practical Scientific Knowledge. 2) The guidance on the education practice. The essay demonstrates the challenges and provides constructive suggestions including reform education curriculum, strengthen faculty and enhance university-enterprise cooperation which is multi-win for undergraduates, universities and enterprises. Based on the university-enterprise cooperation practice with company M, the experiences are summarized and the research results can be popularized. This thesis will analyze Herbert Spencer’s “What Knowledge is of Most Worth?”, and provide the helpful advices on practical scientific knowledge education based on Herbert Spencer’s “What Knowledge is of Most Worth?”

Highlights

In today’s competition, human resources are the most important resource for achieving the goals
For industrial structure upgrading and modern service industry developing, China will need a large number of high-quality talents to contribute to new industrialization
China will need a large number of high-quality talents urgently to contribute to new industrialization for further industrial structure upgrading and modern service industry developing

Summary

INTRODUCTION

In today’s competition, human resources are the most important resource for achieving the goals. China will need a large number of high-quality talents urgently to contribute to new industrialization for further industrial structure upgrading and modern service industry developing. China's Government Organization Department and Human Resources Department jointly issued “Long-term High-skilled Talents Development Plan (2010-2020)” and demonstrated that until 2020 the demand of technology skilled labourers will raise 32.9 million more than the number of 2009, of which highly skilled talents will increase about 9.9 million (Yang YB, 2015). The new demand of China's higher education can fulfil the needs of high-quality, multi-skilled and well-trained talents in China as the important resources of China’s social and economic development. Institutions of higher learning should be in response to the rising demand for significant and applicable education (Alhija, 2016). Education is the basic of universities and colleges in the new economic era. The foundation of education is to know “What Knowledge is of Most Worth?”

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