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Although school system of the university and enrichment of liberal education is deeply interrelated, recent return to department system from school system could make people think that liberal education is going to be entrenched sooner or late. But there is no reliable reason to think so. In order that liberal education may be successful, we should always pursue renewal of combination between subjects of liberal education. The renewal should reflect the change of educational demand and educational significance. In order to draw such a renewal through procedural rationality, the official quarter of liberal education should search students' demand and file it regularly. It is thought that communication education as liberal education at the universities or colleges in korea would win high score at the demand survey, at least where professors or lecturers have been training students' debating-writing competency with enthusiasm. At last, a case is introduced as an example of such a training which is practised on the subject of logical thinking of inje university. The purpose of the subject is the training of logical thinking and the method is educational discussion based on established debating process by 2 teams, for and against, each has 3 persons. Subjects of discussion is selected humanistic and classical, three readings are prepared for every subject of the teaching materials, students must write the preparation paper through essential research, and professors or lecturers should check and upgrade their discussion competence beforehand. This method makes students exercise reading, writing, and speaking simultaneously, so can give significant synergy effect for bringing up their communication competency.