ABSTRACT
If education in its broadest and least controversial sense is to be thought of as facilitating the development of others, usually the young, in some worthwhile way, as I have claimed, then clearly there can be many kinds of assisted development all quite properly called education in some qualified way. I want to claim that a liberal general education is a special kind of education having characteristics and justifications of its own which distinguish it from all other kinds of education. I shall not in this chapter spell out all these characteristics, justifications and distinctions, for all that will occupy several chapters. I must say enough here, however, to separate the idea of a liberal general education from all other kinds of education. The basis of the division is clear and simple; it is the implications that are complicated and will need expansion and explanation in further chapters.
