In Finland, the knowledgeinfusing education has been transforming toward the practical-contextual education. The practicalcontextual education is the combination of knowledge innovation and education genesis, which motivates the education of specialized knowledge and endows it the energy of knowledge innovation and education genesis, expecially while it is facing the chanllenges from the electronic information age. The key conditions for the success of the Finland system of education are two: the pedagogial ideas of the holistic development of humanity, and the repescts for teachers in the whole of society. On the basis of this, the practicalcontextual education with freedom is different from any other pragmatistic education which always views education as some sorts of tool. In comtemporary China, the construction of innovation system is the crucial direction for modernization, however, it can not be confined in instrumental rationality and the research of specialized fields, it should be expanded as the refomation of social instution and the building of culture on which the innovation system can rely. Liberal education that provides the cultural cultivation and the cognitive structure of liberal creativity for the education of specialized areas, is the crucial considerarion for the transformation from instrumental rationality to holistic development of people. At the same time, it contains the fundamental motivation for the innovation of China in the future.

Finland education; Chinese liberal education; the practicalcontextual education; innovation mechanism construction; pragmatistic education; the whole person education