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.

Source history.

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 on the concept of general education, they can reach a consensus on the goal of general education.