What is vocational education? Everyone talked about many phenomena. For example, on the one hand, the employment rate of vocational school graduates, including higher vocational schools, is low; On the other hand, highly skilled talents are very scarce; Some college graduates even go to vocational schools to re-learn technical skills. What is the nature of these problems? In fact, social phenomena are extremely complicated, and any case can be found. Therefore, it is a scientific attitude to combine qualitative and quantitative research to find the essential things. What is the fundamental problem of vocational education? It reminds me first of all, what education does vocational education correspond to, or what is the direction of vocational education? The direction of engineering education is to train engineers, the direction of science education is to train scientists, and the wrong direction of law education is to train lawyers. Some people say that vocational education is employment-oriented education, and I agree. But in higher education, which majors are not employment-oriented? I think not. Not too much. Therefore, this phenomenon is consistent with the current division and orientation of vocational education.

There are levels of vocational education, including senior, middle and junior levels, which are determined by the structure and level of social labor force. With structure and hierarchy, there is a center of gravity. Some economists have proposed to cultivate the middle class. The theoretical basis is that the larger this class is, the more stable the society will be. According to international standards, a per capita income of less than $2 per day is relative poverty, and an income of less than 1 dollar is absolute poverty. According to this index, the vast majority of farmers in China are poor or relatively poor, such a large population group. Only when this group is stable can the country be stable; Only when this group is rich can society develop. At present, we are not a gyro structure of the labor force in developed countries, but a pagoda structure. Vocational education should adapt to this situation, and whether the design of high, medium and low levels of vocational education should take this national situation into account.

Vocational education attaches great importance to the cultivation of ability, especially the cultivation of practical luck ability, which is characteristic and necessary. Ability education should be paid attention to by the whole education, but moral education must not be ignored. For vocational education, it is especially necessary to strengthen professional ethics. The traditional education in feudal society trained rulers, and those who learned well were officials. At that time, there was also the moral indifference of that era, which has a great influence so far. For quite some time after the founding of the People's Republic of China, we demanded the moral standards of advanced elements from ordinary people, which proved to be unworkable. Vocational education is a kind of civilian education, and moral education affects the overall moral level of our country and nation. In the past, after the flight attendants cleaned up the garbage in the carriage, they all threw it out of the carriage. The small environment looks clean, but the big environment is polluted. The same is true of ships, which will throw garbage out at any time. This common professional behavior shows that our professional ethics and public interest awareness are very poor, so it is very necessary to popularize and strengthen education in this area. It is very common to use occupation for personal gain now, which also shows the importance of professional ethics education. On the conditions of vocational education. Everyone calls on the state to increase investment to improve conditions, but the amount of investment should be determined according to needs. It doesn't necessarily mean that an undergraduate school is bigger than a junior college, and a junior college is bigger than a secondary school. Some majors, such as the College of Arts and Sciences, need less investment than engineering. Vocational schools generally need special training, and the requirements for facilities and equipment should be higher. This must be considered when the government invests, otherwise it will be very difficult to run business education. Running vocational education should be closely integrated with industries and enterprises, which is the fundamental direction. Now that government agencies have been adjusted, the responsibilities of management departments have changed, and industries and enterprises are still there, the ways and means of integration should be innovated, otherwise there is no way out. Finally, talk about the Academic Committee of China Vocational Education Association. Since it is an academic organization, we should let go of the discussion and let a hundred schools of thought contend. In particular, education should be emphasized, and the laws of education should not be politicized. The achievements of education are lagging behind, and it is not easy to show up in the short term, so we should be more alert to tinkering.