Liberal arts

This word has been translated as "quality education" in Chinese mainland, "general education" in Taiwan Province Province and "free education" in Hongkong.

"Boya" means "suitable for free people" in Latin. In ancient Greece, the so-called free man refers to the social and political elite. Ancient Greece advocated free education, aiming at cultivating people with extensive knowledge and elegant temperament, freeing students from vulgarity and awakening the extraordinary. What he achieved was not an expert without soul, but a man with culture.

Whether it is the Seven Arts of ancient Rome or the Six Arts of Confucianism in China, it embodies an educational ideal to perfect human nature. Among them, the seven arts of ancient Rome refer to grammar, rhetoric, dialectics, music, arithmetic, geometry and astronomy, while the six arts of Confucianism refer to etiquette, music, archery, bending, calligraphy and mathematics. The purpose of liberal arts education is not to give students a vocational training or professional training, but to cultivate an ideal personality with all-round physical and mental development through several basic knowledge and skills, or to cultivate a rich and healthy human nature.

British thinker John? Muller's summary of liberal arts education is the most incisive: "I know a little about everything, but I know one thing better."

Professor Du Weiming of Harvard University summed up liberal arts education in China, the United States, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Liberal education is generally called quality education in China, liberal education in the United States, liberal education in Hongkong and general education in Taiwan Province Province. Although the name of liberal arts education is different, all parties agree that universities should attach importance to general education, provide humanistic training and cultivate humanistic quality while imparting professional knowledge.