On School Mottos for Modern Universities in China——A Pursuit of the idea of the university

The school motto for university is the special representation form of the idea in itself, the aim of its students' cultivating and the special spirit of itself. To some extent, the motto for university is the symbol form of the concretionary idea of university. It has the features of stability, succession and amalgamation. This paper firstly has a historical looking back upon the mottos for modern universities of China, to discover the traditional spirits of education and the new ideas they contained, and then, it offers a discussion about the contemporary mottos for the Chinese universities.