“专科”的概念,在西方近代教育史中,已存在了几百年。十九世纪,中国国门洞开,西方教育随着廉价的商品一道,涌入东方这个古老的国度。从“专科”这个概念的确定性涵义考证,十九世纪以前的中国教育史上,实在是不曾有过“专科”一说的。作为教育序列的一个层次,“专科”的存在非常合理。它的设置,一开始就是为某一专门工作提供受过针对性训练的专门人才。十八世纪中叶,美国爆发工业革命,真正的工厂产生了。机器的使使代替了人力;机器之间的协作代替了人与人的手工协作,工业文明终于建立在科学技术的基础之上。人们越是多的使用机器,便越 The concept of “specialist” has existed for centuries in the history of modern Western education. In the 19th century, when China opened its doors to the outside world, Western education, along with cheap commodities, poured into the ancient kingdom of the East. From the definitive meaning of the concept of “specialist”, in the history of Chinese education before the nineteenth century, there was really no such thing as “specialist”. As a level of educational sequence, the existence of “specialist” is very reasonable. Its set-up, from the very beginning, was to provide specially trained professionals for a specific job. The mid-eighteenth century, the United States broke out of the industrial revolution, the real factory produced. The use of machines instead of manpower; collaboration between machines instead of manual collaboration between people, industrial civilization has finally been built on the basis of science and technology. The more people use the machine, the more they are