Earth system science-the frontier of earth science and scientific basis of the sustainable development strategy in the21st century;

Coordinating basic discipline and applied discipline is an important content of university disciplinary construction.

Though the coordination of basic discipline and applied discipline is not the one-track content of university disciplinary construction,the relation between basic discipline and applied discipline is one of important element of the promotion of disciplinary level.

Starting from the current development trend of science and technology in modern world, and taking the current situation of foundation science teaching in the developed nations into account, the author expresses the views on the direction of university teaching reforms, and puts forward some suggestions for the decision makers for reference.

Information Science, Sociology,Management,Information Theory, System Theory and Cybernetics provide a scientific foundation for it.

The paper discusses the relations between technological rationality spreading and scientific foundation,and analyses the possibilities corrected the deviations of previous technological rationality by the escalation of technological rationality developing with the changes of scientific foundation.