The Relationship Between Knowledge Society and Higher Education

Abstract

The economic foundation determines the superstructure. Knowledge society is a society with knowledge and innovation as the core of development. The paper analyzes the relationship between knowledge society and higher education. In the knowledge society, a knowledge economy dominated by economy occupies an important position in social development. Knowledge society and higher education complement each other and promote each other, but at the same time, there are still some problems between knowledge society and higher education, which need to be solved in the process of development. Knowledge society brings opportunities for development and reform to higher education. Higher education cultivates more lifelong learners for the knowledge society and enables the knowledge society to play the role of knowledge economy. The learning methods and knowledge systems possessed by lifelong learners are exactly what the knowledge society needs to develop a knowledge economy. However, it also brings some uncertainties and hidden worries, such as the threat to the status of higher education in knowledge dissemination and production in the development of a knowledge society, and the simplification and sloganization of higher education reform in the process of reform.