True Meaning and scope of General Education
The formal definition of general education or liberal education focuses on development of cognitive skills within the students. It focuses on teaching people to think and to learn how to tackle the general issues related to our society and our lives. It also focuses on breadth of knowledge across a number of disciplines.
A liberally educated person should be informed in acquaintance with the mathematical and experimental methods of the physical and biological sciences. The main forms of analysis and the historical and quantitative techniques needed to investigate the development of a modern society, with some of the important scholarly, literary, and artistic achievements of the past, and also with humanity’s major religious and philosophical concepts.
Liberal or general education should be such that it should leave students excited by the world of learning and prepared to continue their education at advanced and technical levels, both in the short term through in depth study of a specialist discipline and also in the long term as they should continually refresh their knowledge in formal and informal ways, through the process of lifelong learning that lasts forever.
In some parts of the world, the term liberal education or general education has a conservative or traditional connotation that implies a particular way of looking at the world. The Task Force, however, is not favoring and advocating the universal application of a particular curriculum or teaching method across different countries and cultures.
Instead, what it is recommending is that each country should design its own general curriculum to fit the structure and values of its higher education system and make its children architects of a better future of the nation and the whole mankind. Indeed, the exercise of developing a national (though not nationalistic) general education curriculum should be socially useful, and should be requiring a country to examine the state and direction of human knowledge and establish priorities for its higher education system.
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