潘懋元是我国高等教育学科的创始人,他早在20世纪八九十年代就关注比较高等教育研究的情况,为比较高等教育研究指明了方向。在研究价值上,他强调要“洋为中用”、借鉴创新;在研究对象上,强调要放眼世界,不仅只关注发达国家的情况,还要重视对发展中国家的研究;在方法论上,强调要具有可比性,不能简单盲目对比。 Pan Maoyuan is the founder of China’s higher education discipline. As early as the 1980s and the 1990s, he paid close attention to the situation of higher education research and pointed out the direction for the study of higher education. In terms of research value, he emphasized that it is necessary to “learn from foreign countries” and learn from innovation. He emphasizes that we should look to the world not only for developed countries but also for developing countries. In methodologies On, stressed the need to be comparable, can not simply blind comparison.