Feng Xin: You just mentioned we have mass education, vocational education and elite education. Then, my question is: What exactly is the purpose of higher education?

冯欣：您刚才提到通俗教育、职业教育、精英教育，那我有一个问题，我们大学教育的任务到底应该是什么呢？

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It plays a positive role in the recognition of the worth of mass sports, and in fUrther developing mass sports in institutions of higher education.

这对充分认识群体活动的价值，在高校更好地开展群体活动将起到积极的作用。

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If the private sector could provide mass higher education, they would.

FORBES: Colleges And Universities Should Operate More Like Businesses

And yet to define the university as the engine room of the knowledge economy also imposes complex new demands on an institution already struggling to reconcile its ancient tradition with the demands of mass higher education.

ECONOMIST: The knowledge factory

One of the hardest puzzles for mass higher education is how to make those universities that are not part of some such elite, whether formal or informal, concentrate on their students' needs rather than their own position in a pecking order based on research.

ECONOMIST: Higher learning and the middle classes