By looking at the history of universities, this article traces the tradition of the system of undergraduate education and discusses the classical, text-based education as its conveyor. It focuses on the turn of humanistic education in the seventeenth century, the formation of empirical sciences in the eighteenth century, and the modernization of university constitutions in the twentieth century as well as the related controversies. It further analyzes the correlation between undergraduate education and contemporary social issues, and eventually proposes to associate "classical sciences" and "empirical sciences"so as to solidify education as a process of educating humans based on "human sciences."