Education Forum 2012 was successfully held by the Unirule in Beijing Jade Palace Hotel on November 23th, 2012, which focused on “Inappropriate Allocation of Educational Resource”. Prof. Yang Dongping, Dean of Beijing Institute of Technology and President of 21st Century Education Research Institute, Prof. Yan Fengqiao, Vice Dean of Graduate School of Education, Beijing Normal University, Dr. Liu Yejin, Associated Professor of Capital University of Economics, Dr.Wanhuan, Associated Professor of Capital Normal University, Ms. Lu Ke ,Doctor of Beijing Academy Educational Sciences , Prof. Sheng Hong, Director of the Unirle of Institute of Economics, Prof. Zhao Nong , Researcher of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences，CASS，attended the forum and delivered keynote speeches respectively. Among the audience were students and teachers from relevant educational organizations, reporters, people from the privately-run educational organizations, and relevant governmental officials.

Firstly, Prof. Sheng Hong gave the opening remarks focusing on the educational inequity. He believed that per-capita education resource should be equal. However, we were quite disappointed with the existing conditions of human resources allocation. He described the unjust distribution of educational resources as “A greedy hand”. Such kind of system has been culturally accepted.

After that, as the chief editor, Prof. Liu Yejin summarized the phased results of the project of “the Study of Efficiency and Justice of Resource Allocation by the Educational Administrative Departments”. Both form macro- and microscopic perspective, he made a lot of data to illustrated the gap between rural and urban areas in education, the irrationality of preventing the NCEE migrants, and the issues of closing or merging the migrants’ schools. As he pointed out, the educational administrative departments would tend to expand its administration through allocating the educational resource, and urbanization and ruralization (de-urbanization) should happen naturally instead of by human force. In the end, Prof. Liu put forward a number of policy proposals for enhancing the fair and effective disposition of educational resources.

Prof. Sheng Hong, the director of the Unirle, gave the speech on “Vision and Calculation: Why is the Education Critical?” He pointed out that the partial vision was due to bounded rationality. The capacity of awareness for one is also limited. Then he raised a question of “why homo economics end up choosing to do something which is harmful themselves?” He gave an answer to his own question, people always focus on the “little games” that they are playing, but forget that they are also involved in the “big games” He quote the teaching Confucianism that reminds us of looking at the long term benefits. In the end, Prof. Sheng concluded that education help one to build long term vision, instead of making decisions merely based on the current situation, so that one could be able make long term plan strategically and errors and mistakes could be avoided by this practice. That is why the education is critical.