First of all, from the nature of general education. General education is an integral part of higher education; General education is "non-professional non-professional education"; General education is an education for all college students; General education is a university idea, that is, the idea of running a whole university; General education is synonymous with free education, and the essence of general education is the inheritance of freedom and humanistic tradition.

Secondly, from the perspective of the purpose of general education, such as: "General education refers to non-professional and non-professional education, aiming at cultivating sound individuals and citizens in a free society."

"The idea of general education in universities should be to cultivate high-level civilized education and complete human nature education with broad vision, knowledge, liberal arts spirit and good feelings"; "General education aims at inculcating a good attitude and understanding of citizens in students" and so on. This definition emphasizes that general education is an education that pays attention to the harmonious development of human life, morality, emotion and reason.

Thirdly, the content of general education is discussed. For example, "give young people aged 20-25 an accurate and general knowledge about all subjects of interest to mankind"; "General education is an education that makes students familiar with the facts in the main knowledge fields".

According to this definition, general education is the education of knowledge and skills in all fields of people's lives, and it is the education of knowledge and ability that is non-professional, non-professional, non-utilitarian and does not directly prepare for occupation, involving a wide range and strong comprehensiveness.

General education is an important part of university education. As the basis of all-round development of talents, general education is not only conducive to students' personal growth, but also plays an important role in promoting the development and progress of the whole society. Through these courses, students can broaden their horizons, understand different cultures, history and values in the world, and have interdisciplinary comprehensive quality and global vision.