Abstract:

Justice is the fundamental starting point of the design of China’s higher education system. Rawls’ theory of justice is internally correlated with the higher education system. In such theoretical perspectives as resource allocation, input and output and stakeholders, this paper analyzes Rawls’ theory of fairness, and further reflects on the injustice in the design of higher education system. In addressing the root cause of the injustice in the design of higher education system, we must care about students’ development of human nature and their interests and freedom, take into consideration the faculty and staff’s duties and responsibilities on the one hand and their physical and psychological harmony on the other, highlight the organic unity between form and substance, and optimize the design of higher education system through such measures as macrocontrol, innovation mechanism and double actions of explanations and amendments.

Key words:  higher education,  , justice principle, educational system, the root cause of injustice