The Research On General Education Of The National Southwest Associated University

As a temporary University during the war of resistance against Japan, The National Southwest Associated University was set up in Yunnan that merger of the National Peking University, National Tsinghua University and the Private Nankai University. During the eight tough years, Southwest Associated University provided abundant talents for our country and society, and its tremendous achievements in the modern history in education of China was closely related to innovating general education.Obviously, although The Southwest Associated University cannot be copied, its philosophy of school and teaching mode can provide some useful inspiration to our higher education, especially the implementation of general education. Therefore, this research aims to do a review and reflection to the general education of The Southwest Associated University form perspective of historical development.This study focused on the origin, content and achievements of general education. The general talents deficiency fact and loose policies provided the possibility of general education implementation. With traditional effect and support of professors in three universities, general education was finally established.In the contents of general education, Southwest Associated University proposed general talents education as a teaching target, take credit system as principal part and stick to combination of common required courses and sufficient optional courses and strict management. In addition, anyone with talent could be teacher in Southwest Associated University. As a result, a large number of academic masters in Southwest Associated University contributed to a diversity of education pattern and educated plenty of constructive talents for our country and society. As a successful example of implementation of general education, the theory on school management of Southwest Associated University would be used for reference in our higher education in China.