Discussion on Higher Education Fair.doc

Discussion on Higher Education Fair Abstract: Educational fairness is an important part of social equity is an important means to achieve social harmony. However, the development of China’s higher education due to various reasons, there are some inequities, to which we must attach great importance to and to find effective measures to resolve them in order to promote the building of a harmonious socialist society. To promote and expand educational equity, is to reduce and overcome the kinds of social inequality, the fight against social exclusion and encourage social mobility, social participation and social cohesion, the only way to achieve social harmony. Keywords:: higher education; equity issues; Discussion First, education fairness is an important part of social equity Education, social equity, fairness is an important part of social equity in the extension of the field of education, but also an important means to achieve social justice and ways. American educator Rathmann He once said: “Education is a great tool for achieving human equality, and its effects than any other human invention are much bigger.” Educational equity is missing or damaged, will greatly affect other areas of social equity, making other areas of the continuity of social inequality, and further amplification. With regard to education equity, Plato in his “Utopia” had set out from two aspects of its meaning: first, a fair education should be to make each person unique ability to develop, in order to get everyone through education development, we must provide the same educational opportunities, such opportunities should not be affected by race, geography, family background, economic status extrinsic factors; second, the ability of individuals to benefit the entire country should be a way to develop. Sweden’s well-known educator Saddam Hussein believes that equity in education mainly refers to equal opportunities in education, including education, the starting point of equal