This article purports to give reflections on the problem concerning general education in the last half-century through personal experience, and will discuss the issues from three different perspectives:(l)problems caused by the separation between the mind, the heart and the will since modern times; (2) problems concerning the design of a core program for general education; (3)problems caused by the impacts from current multi-culturalist movements. It has been pointed out, in an increasingly shrinking global village, for people to live peacefully together in the future, on the one hand certain forms of pluralism must be recognized, and yet on the other hand certain kinds of concensus have to be sought. It has been suggested that, through a creature reinterpretation of the Sung Confucian dictum: li-i-fen-shu. (One Principle, many manifestations), valuable insights may be learned for us to face the current situation.