The way of university is the purpose of university. The word "university" had two meanings in ancient times: one was "erudite"; The second is "adult learning" relative to primary schools. "University" is an essay on Confucian thoughts of self-cultivation, governing the country and leveling the world. Originally the 42nd Book of Rites Dai Xiao, it is said that it was written by Ceng Zi during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. In fact, it is a Confucian work in the Qin and Han Dynasties, and it is an important work for China to discuss educational theory in ancient times.

The value influence of Great Learning is 1. The University put forward a political philosophy program. Universities theorized and popularized Confucianism in a short space, which was convenient for scholars to learn and master, and Confucianism provided a guarantee for the stability of feudal dynasties.

2. The University can be regarded as the first book of scientific enlightenment. It is pointed out that "sincerity and integrity" is an essential scientific research mentality, "learning from others" is the only way to know, "stopping at perfection" is the pursuit of perfection, and "improving day by day" is a strong sense of innovation.

3. Although "University" is full of subjective idealism philosophy, it has important expositions of simple materialism philosophy, such as "things have a beginning and an end", acknowledging the beginning and end of things; The proposed "radical cure" recognizes the law of governing the country.

4. As the first of the four books, Da Xue is an important ideological carrier of Confucianism. Confucianism, as the legal basis of China's traditional politics, played an important role in the construction of China's ancient clean government culture, which had a far-reaching impact.

5. The economic thoughts put forward by universities are the most favorable cultural foundation of Socialism with Chinese characteristics's economics. For example, he put forward the ideas of "taking virtue as the last wealth", "gathering wealth for the people", "making people comfortable" and "taking righteousness as benefit".