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. Since/kloc-Professor Packard of Bode College in the United States first linked it with university education in the early 9th century, more and more people are keen on studying and discussing it, so it is also called general education in universities.

The most important function of general education is to gather social knowledge and overcome the narrowness of professional education. Whether it is to gather social knowledge, distinguish judgment value, express communication, lifelong learning or enrich life, these goals of general education are difficult or basically impossible to achieve through professional education.

The main difference between college general education and middle school education lies not in the depth and breadth of knowledge, but in the fact that general education is a process of forgetting, confusion and repositioning. General education is a "trinity", that is, an educational system that integrates value shaping, ability training and people's core knowledge acquisition.

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General education is a new educational model that rose in the west after World War II. Mainly aimed at the excessive specialization of western university education. Its development can be simply divided into three stages. The first stage was around the end of World War II, when Columbia University questioned and criticized the university's professional education. As we all know, the disciplines in universities are very finely divided.

The second stage is the 1980s and 1990s, with Harvard University and Chicago University as representatives, to analyze, reflect and critically construct the moral, ethical and personality problems caused by vocational education.

The third stage is that after the rise of Internet and artificial intelligence in the 2nd/kloc-0th century, human beings have a new understanding of what knowledge is, its dissemination and learning, and we can see that the interaction and integration between science and engineering disciplines and humanities disciplines are getting deeper and deeper.

Reference materials? Baidu encyclopedia-general education