In view of utilitarian tendency, higher education should be thought deeply to develop and reform in philosophy field, and its new values should be reconstructed. Depended on educational idea of scientific humanism, issues in modern higher education were discussed by means of philosophical speculation and comparison. Higher education of scientific humanism is based on scientism, and guided by humanistic values. Its ultimate mission is perfecting of personality, and its particularity is cross innovation. General education is both the basis and the value orientation of quintessential education, and quintessential education is the sublimation of professional knowledge. Higher education of scientific humanism advocates the reformation that liberal arts is scientification, and science and engineering is humanization.