作為生命教育的大學通識教育：個人的體證

College General Education as Life Education: A Personal Testimony

本文主旨在於探討生命教育與大學通識教育融合的可能性，全文論述環繞五個問題展開：一、當前通識教育出現哪些問題？二、什麼是通識教育？什麼是生命教育？三、為什麼生命教育與通識教育必須融合？四、如何將生命教育與通識教育融合？五、兩者融合之後可以產生哪些效果？本文結論指出：教師既是一種職業，更是一種志業，教師要常常懷著一個感恩之心從事教研工作。對師長，對學校，對學生，特別是對學生，都要懷有感恩之情。因為這些學生在他們十八歲到二十二歲的青春歲月、在他們生命花開的季節走入了我們的教室，我們必須竭盡一切努力送給他們一雙手工縫製的精神皮鞋，使他們在大學畢業以後，能夠穿著走過未來生命道路上的荊棘與苦痛，這才是我們這個教育工作最深刻的意義之所在。如果教師常以感恩之心來從事教學與研究，教師就能夠參與學生知識的成長與生命的成長。

In recent ten years or so, with the support of the Ministry of Education, the Chinese Association for General Education and each university in Taiwan, general education at the universities and colleges has made discernible progress in providing students with better knowledge. Gazing into the future, the question of how to transform knowledge into wisdom so that it will facilitate improving students' life should be the focus of college general education efforts. This paper represents my ongoing reflections on this issue in recent years. This paper concludes that teaching is not just a profession, it is a mission. The teacher must always embrace a sense of gratitude while in engaging in teaching and research work. Toward the senior faculty, toward the school, toward the students, especially toward the students, the teacher should embrace a sense of gratitude. Because our students, at the age of 18-22, are in the bloom of their youth, in their flowering spring when they enter our classroom, we must devote ourselves to giving them each a pair of hand-sewn spiritual shoes which they can wear after graduation when they encounter the brambles and hardships along the road of their future life. This is where the deepest importance of our education lies. If we teachers always embrace our sense of gratitude while pursuing our teaching career, we will be able to participate in the students’ maturation in life as well as in knowledge.