A Liberal Education for the 21 st Century: Some Reflections on General Education Charles R. Fox Charles Fox, Professor of Psychology at Worcester State University, is a national consultant on project management, program development and assessment, administration, and ethics. He has been recognized with several awards, including the J. Warren Perry Distinguished Author Award (2008), the Kansas Health Ethics Organizational Award of Honor (2007), and the VAMC Outstanding Merit Citation (1992), among others. Abstract General education has been a common approach for providing a liberal education since the standard model was first established in 1945. However, the structure of an appropriate, effective general education curriculum is still widely debated, including the question of whether a general education is desirable or even possible. One significant issue in these debates is that the world has changed radically since the original general education theories were established and various reform movements have not significantly changed this original framework. This essay discusses the purpose and desirability of a general education curriculum, the goals of general education, and various approaches to it. It considers the widely shared goal of critical Fox, C. R. (2016). A Liberal Education for the 21st Century: Some Reflections on General Education. Currents in Teaching & Learning, 8(2), 5-17. http://www.worcester.edu/currents