Noun
general education (uncountable)
(education) Education in a number of important subjects, taught in schools.
Therefore, to teach them [women] at least an outline of economics and law is the first requirement after giving them a general education. Figuratively speaking, it will be like providing the women of civilized society with a pocket dagger for self-protection. Fukuzawa Yukichi
The intensity of a national culture should be represented by... the general education level and... the exceptional merit of a small elite of pioneers. George Sarton
The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible. Orson Scott Card
There is no one area of chemical engineering that specifically helped me in my career as an astronaut, it was more the general education in engineering. Also, it was a very difficult and rigorous course. So, it made me strong and resourceful. Leroy Chiao
General education is the best preventive of the evils now most dreaded. Rutherford B. Hayes
Allan, David (2008); p. 68 Towards the end of the 18th century and in the first decades of the nineteenth the need for books and general education made itself felt among social classes created by the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution. Source: Internet