Liberal Education And Its Present Form

Pursuing for liberty has always been a central topic in education since ancient times. In current times which science and technology development nearly dominate everything, liberal education is a good therapy for imbalanced ration. Thus, this old fashioned education form can still finds its soil to be further developed now.The present liberal education also aims for liberty, however, the current advantaged realistic conditions make it more capable to penetrate liberty spirit into all phases of education. It is more an ideal on education, it is also practical to accomplish "the whole man"'s liberal and harmonious development at the same time.During the process of modernization, general education makes liberal education more adaptive to nowadays' development with a new face, it is the best annotation to the essence of present liberal education. Meanwhile, general education unifies traditional liberal education and practical need, and provides a basis on how to handle the relationship with professional/ vocational education correctly.Besides, educational freedom concretizes the general pursuit of ideal liberty into practical assurance of behavior selectivity. By showing and realizing the selectivity in each of its specific aspects, educational freedom ultimately achieves present liberal education.