Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 2002

A sit-in to protest against a three-year undergraduate curriculum (1988) Prof. Ma Lin Vice-Chancellor's Report 1978-1982 ‘ General Education ... is designed to inculcate in the minds of the students certain basic knowledge over a wide cross-section of human endeavours. The aim of General Education is to develop the student into a rational, educated human being w h o has the understanding, compassion, perception and judgment to face the complex issues of the mo d e rn world. This aim is derived from the University's perception that one of its most important roles must be to provide society with men and women in various fields of specialization w h o at the same time are able to grasp the totality of situations and have broad enough general knowledge to see a wide range of implications affecting each decision to be taken. CUHK at 40 Holistic Education 19