What is the essence of general education?

It is to cultivate a person who can not only take the exam, but also understand cognition and strive for more development opportunities for himself, and cultivate a complete citizen with self-awareness and guidance and a sense of social responsibility. This is the essence of general education.

General education is a kind of education. The goal of this kind of education is to provide the educated with knowledge and values that are popular among different people in modern pluralistic society.

General education is the translation of English "Liberal Arts Education", and some scholars have translated it into "general education", "general education" and "general education" and so on.

Since 19 century, Professor A.S.Parkard of Bowdoin College in the United States first linked it with university education, more and more people are keen to study and discuss it. Although people have different expressions about the concept of general education, people can have a clear understanding of the goal of general education.

The source of the word:

Under the background of modern university education in China, the term "general education" was first put forward by Mr. Qian Mu. 1940 wrote "On the Reform of University System", stating that "knowledge is precious and can be converged" and warning China University that "experts are precious when an academic discipline flourishes, and masters are especially valuable ... Today, universities that have lost their reputation in China are unfortunately less versatile and more specialized".

194 1 year, Mr. Mei Yiqi and Mr. Pan Guangdan also put forward the famous conclusion that "general knowledge is the foundation, special knowledge is the purpose, society needs generalists, followed by experts, and experts based on non-generalists come to the people, and the result is not newcomers, but disturbing the people."

Although general education originated in the Republic of China, so far many universities advocate general education only in the words of a few prescient educators. Nowadays, after decades of rapid modernization of China's society and universities, the realistic foundation of general education has been established.