Liberal Education as a Concept System and Its Development Track——Comparison between Liberal Education and General Education and Common Education

Liberal education is not an simple concept,it is a concept system composed by educational ideas,education methods and education tactics.General education and common education are the below-concepts of liberal education,and they are education tactics for bringing about liberal education idea.In different periods,the meaning of liberal education was different.However,there were some elements which had never changed in history,such as individual freedom,personality development and rational knowledge-structure.In these three fundamental elements,individual freedom is the premise,personality development is the goal,and rational knowledge-structure is the measure.Surveying the development track of liberal education is useful to understand this issue,which could give some hints to our present education reform.