Liberal education is a classical liberal education in the west. It can also be translated into general education, liberal arts education, humanities education, generalist education, quality education and so on.

In modern society, liberal arts education is regarded as a kind of all-round quality education based on people in society. It is different from professional education and specialized education. The scope of liberal arts education changes with the change of society. In modern times, humanities and science have become an important part of liberal arts education, so that liberal arts education is also called liberal arts education.

The shortcomings of liberal arts education

Liberal arts education does not advocate the study of professional knowledge, but adopts bundled education. A student must study more than ten courses. Educated students seem to know everything, but in fact they are not good at anything. Moreover, what you learn in school after coming out to work is generally useless and not good at learning, which leads to the phenomenon that knowledge is easy to forget, and what you learn after forgetting is not learned, resulting in a waste of education.

CCTV has a game show "Lucky 52", which uses the knowledge of primary school to test the adults after work. Many people can explain the problem if they can't answer the question of primary school.

In the United States, the best universities and small colleges usually adopt liberal arts education. For excellent students, liberal arts education provides future social leaders with more comprehensive knowledge, and because students have strong learning ability, it is no problem to read a lot of books widely. Harvard and Stanford are both elite universities adhering to the spirit of liberal arts education.