The modern higher education overly insists on practicality and utility, which should be criticized to establish a correct educational idea. Based on the educational idea of scientific humanism, we analyzed disadvantages in modern higher education by methods of criticism and comparison. Higher education of scientific humanism is based on scientism, and guided by humanistic values. It pursues an ultimate goal that education develops perfect personality harmoniously, and it emphasizes the scientific and humanistic personal cultivation that both morals and ability are important. It promotes various subjects to infiltrate into each other, trains students for all-round development, and encourages the innovation of heuristic instruction with knowledge innovation as the central idea.