TU Youguang is a famous educator and philosopher in China, providing a lot of useful ideas for the development of Chinese colleges and universities. Some of his ideas on the current practice of higher education still have a good guidance. Professor TU believes that the essence of the university is academic freedom and the pursuit of truth. Scientific civilization should be globalized, and human civilization should be localized. Humanities including humanistic knowledge and humanistic spirit, the essence of humanities lies in humanistic spirit.