The Study of British College Education Tradition and Its Enlightment to Modern Chinese Universities

Abstract

In the heritage of the British classical university, British college is the main perpetrators and function carrier of British university personnel training. British college owns academic communities sharing a common interest, and is a cultural field of poetic dwelling, the self-government and self-consistent life style and the grace and liberal cultural atmosphere created the essence of the cultural community of the shaping elite. In this one continuous line of cultural community, the process of student continuing to pursue knowledge, is the process of their sharing a common history, a common culture and the shared feelings, shared experience and atmosphere. In short, they share a common lifestyle, and they have a common understanding of the soul of the nation. Civilization survives in the college which is as a cultural community. Thenational citizens cultivated by the college education as the human resources help the development of countries, which create a virtuous
circle.