2010
奥尔特加和赫钦斯大学思想的比较分析
——基于对《大学的使命》和《美国高等教育》的解读
岳跃峰 张慧洁
摘要:对奥尔特加和赫钦斯著作的理解需要突破以往“条块化”的解读方式,尽量忠于原著内容及其论述逻辑。奥尔特加和赫钦斯对大学问题有类似的看法,但对何为大学的使命以及如何达成这种使命的主张有本质不同,前者力图恢复大学的文化活力,通过“文化传授”建立符合时代的“核心思想体系”,后者强调大学的理智特征,希望通过“普通教育”构筑共同的知识基础,重建大学的“理性秩序”。二者的大学思想均带有保守主义的倾向,并体现出一定程度的不确定性和不彻底性;对其比较分析将有助于更加准确把握各自重心及相互差异,同时为今日反思大学使命与大学改革等议题提供有益借鉴。
关键词:奥尔特加;赫钦斯;大学思想
[《现代大学教育》2010年第3期 ]
A Comparison of the Respective University Ideas by Ortega and Hutchins Based on the Interpretation of Mission of the University and The Higher Learning in America
Yue Yuefeng Zhang Huijie
(Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China)
Abstract: Ortega Y. Gasset and Robert M. Hutchins shared similar views on university in their books Mission of the University and The Higher Learning in America, and yet they had quite different ideas about what is the mission of the university and how to accomplish it. Ortega emphasized “general culture” and took “the transmission of culture” as the prime concern of university, so as to set up the “essential system of ideas” of present time, whereas Hutchins insisted on “general education” and the establishment of “rational order” in modern universities. Both their ideas of university showed a tendency of conservatism, the features of uncertainty, and, to some extent, a lack of thoroughness. These ideas, however, are of special relevance to the universities of today.
Key Words: Ortega Y. Gasset; Robert M. Hutchins; University Ideas