答案優(yōu)選美國人認(rèn)為大學(xué)本科教育是一個(gè)自由人最基本的教育，它幫助一個(gè)體成長為一個(gè)具有理性思辨能力和批判精神的健全人。
Americans believe that university education is the most basic education, a free man it helps a individual grow into a rational thinking and critical spirit of healthy people.

而中國的大學(xué)教育，由于歷史和經(jīng)濟(jì)發(fā)展水平等諸多原因，還被定位成培養(yǎng)某方面專業(yè)人才的專才教育。
While China's university education, due to many reasons such as history and economic developing level, also is positioned into the training of specialists in the field of some aspect of specialist education.

雙方最大的區(qū)別在于，前者之目標(biāo)是為了培養(yǎng)健全的個(gè)體，使其成為一個(gè)稱職的文明社會(huì)公民；而后者之目標(biāo)在于培養(yǎng)工具式的人才。由于兩者在目標(biāo)上存在著本質(zhì)的區(qū)別，因此中美大學(xué)教育在其他諸多方面也存在著根本性的差別。他們又可以集中地體現(xiàn)在專業(yè)選擇和課程設(shè)置上。

The goal of both the biggest difference is that the former is to cultivate a healthy individual, make it become a qualified citizen civilized society; The goal of which is in the tool type training of talents. Because there is essential difference between both in the target, so the university education of China and the United States in many other areas there are fundamental differences. They can be clearly reflected on the professional choice and the curriculum.

中國的大學(xué)生在入學(xué)前，就已經(jīng)確定了某一專業(yè)。并且，從進(jìn)入大學(xué)的第一學(xué)期，就開始學(xué)習(xí)專業(yè)課程。并且，中國的大學(xué)課程中，專業(yè)課程(包括核心課程和相關(guān)課程)至少占到總課程數(shù)的60%以上。
China's college students in front of the entrance, has identified a professional. And, from entering the university of the first semester, began to learn professional courses. And China university courses, professional courses, including core courses and related courses) at least accounted for over 60% of the total number of courses.


美國的大學(xué)生在進(jìn)入大學(xué)時(shí)并無專業(yè)之分，而是按照一定的要求學(xué)習(xí)一些公共科目。這些科目一般要涵蓋一些幾各大系：文學(xué)、藝術(shù)、歷史、哲學(xué)、人文、社會(huì)、數(shù)學(xué)、科學(xué)等幾大領(lǐng)域。學(xué)生在經(jīng)過比較廣泛的教育后，能夠更加清楚地了解自己，了解社會(huì)以及了解各個(gè)學(xué)科的內(nèi)涵。
College students in the United States no professional when entering the university, but studying some common subject according to certain requirements. These subjects are generally to cover some several major series: literature, art, history, philosophy, the humanities, the society, mathematics, science, and so on several big areas. Students after more extensive education, can more clearly understand themselves, understand the society and understand the connotation of many disciplines.

因此，可以想象，美國的大學(xué)教育培養(yǎng)出來的學(xué)生在知識寬度、平衡性方面有著顯著的優(yōu)勢?；镜臍v史、人文和哲學(xué)教育能夠保證畢業(yè)生至少具備基本的現(xiàn)代公民素質(zhì)。而對不同領(lǐng)域的廣泛而不深入的涉略，能夠讓畢業(yè)生保持對科學(xué)的興趣，從而為研究生階段進(jìn)一步深入研究打下基礎(chǔ)。這些，都是我們中國的教育需要好好學(xué)習(xí)的。

So, as you can imagine, university education in the United States made students has significant advantages in knowledge width, balance. The basic philosophy of history, humanities and education to ensure graduates to at least have the basic qualities of modern citizens. And on different areas of the extensive and in-depth involvement slightly, can keep graduates interest in science, so as to lay the foundation for the research of graduate level further. These are China's education we need to study hard.