Abstract
This paper deals with the scientific character of General Education. The authors discuss the ambiguity of its aims and methods, and consequently its unique position on the border-line between philosophy and science.
General Education refers to philosophical reflection of the questions of the meaning of life and its place in the totality of the world, of values and models of good life. Education as a social science makes use of the principles of exact and objective scientific methods.
The authors advocate the idea that it is the tension between philosophy and science that gives general education great prospects for development in the future. In this connection, the authors point out some of the critical moments in the development of modern science, and they search for the topics that should be emphasized in general education with regard to the contemporary scientific operation, and to the dangers threatening to replace the real science by mere methodics.