职业教育的本质是传递和交流信息,传授知识、训练技能。关于职业教育公益性的讨论,要区分是对教育过程还是对教育结果而言。对于教育的“产品”——人才,公共产品理论失灵,因为人才的创造性是任何公共物品都不具有的,可称其为“超公共产品”。职业教育的公益性应从教育的结果方面来体现,因而,公益性与私益性是相容的,公益性与营利性、产业性也不是矛盾关系。 The essence of vocational education is to transmit and exchange information, impart knowledge and train skills. The debate about the public welfare of vocational education is to distinguish between the educational process and the educational result. For education “product ” - talented people, the theory of public goods fails, because talent is not created by any public goods, it can be called “super public goods ”. The public welfare of vocational education should be reflected from the results of education. Therefore, public welfare and private welfare are compatible, and public welfare and profit-making and industriality are not contradictory.