《通识教育英语读本》的编写，其基本宗旨，是试图把人文素质教育（liberal education）与英语学习结合起来。目前市面上有各式各样的商务英语、旅游英语、文秘英语，却少有以人文素质教育为专门指向的人文英语或通识英语。本书的出版，意在填补这方面的空白。　　就我的见闻所及，此前，中国，乃至世界，很少有人把liberal 一词与English -词联在一起使用，更少有谁把它拿来作为一本书的书名。所以，仅从书名看，本书在2007年作为自编教材在四川大学锦城学院率先推出之际，应该说已经是一个首创。

Homer the Great Storg Tell
ThE Divine Musician
OEdipus and thE Riddlc of the Sphin
Puamalion the Sculptor
Stories from the Bile

Stories the Sculptor
The Story of a Beautiful Garden
The Great Ship That Saved Eight People
The Tower That Was Never Finished
The Beautiful Baby Who Was Found in a River
The Strong Man: How He Lived and How He Dies
Jesus in the Desert, and Beside the River
The Water Jars at the Wedding Feast
The Twelve Disciples and the Sermon on the Mount
The Last Supper
The Olive Orchard and the High Priest' s Hall
The Crown of Thorns
Confucius the Great Educator
Confucius in The Story of Mankind

An introduction to Confucianisn
Themes in Confucian Thought
Humanity
Ritual
Loyalty
Filial Pirty
Relationships
The Gendeman
Rectification of Names
Meritocracy
Influence in 17th Century Europe
Criticism
Religion or Philosophy Debate


Quotations from confucian canons
The Great Learning （《大学》）
The Doctrine of the Mean （《中庸》）
Confuaan Analects （《论语》）
Mencius （《孟子》）

The story of Gecorge Wshington
Ⅰ.When Washington Was a Boy
Ⅱ.His Homes
Ⅲ.His Schools and Schoolmasters
Ⅳ.Going to Sea
Ⅴ.The Young Surveyor
Ⅵ.The Ohio Country
Ⅶ.A Change ofCircumstances
Ⅷ.A Perilousjoumey
Ⅸ.His First Battle
Ⅹ.The French and Indian War
Ⅺ.The Mutterings ofthe Storm
Ⅻ.The Beginning ofthe War
ⅩⅣ.The First President
ⅩⅤ."First in War,First in Peace"


Stories About Grest Scientists
"Eureka!"
Galileo and the Lamps
Sir Isaac Newton and the Apple
James Watt and the Teakettle

Greek Mugths and Famous Men
Roman Dtories Famous Men
Appendix