智识作为专业教育的产品

What kind of people should be cultivated in professional education, how should universities serve economic and social development? These are the questions we need to think about carefully in the current boom of professional education. Flexner's Professional Intellectual Education Theory (PIET) proposed in the early 20th century is now still instructive. PIET discusses professional education from the aspects of educational goal, place, curriculum, teaching, etc., and puts forward the following viewpoints: the essential attribute of the profession is intellectual which based on knowledge; the university is the place to acquire intellectual and the producer of knowledge; to integrate university ideals and professional essence, professional education should enter into the university conditionally; knowledge-based professional intellectual education is the only means to cultivate intellectual. PIET is a response to social pressure while maintaining the elite education tradition of university theory has a timeless