Friday, May 12, 2006

Definiton of an educated person

Give your definition of an educated person.
Education is defined by Webster’s as: the process of training and developing the knowledge, skill, mind, and character. Person is defined as: a human being. If we put these things together we happen to find an educated person. A person may be educated in many different realms. We cannot narrow this term only to book smarts. If a person is a skilled athlete they are educated in the game they play. Athletes spend a lot of time figuring out how to read an opponent, techniques and rules. Book smart people can quote books and argue politics, theology, philosophy and many other things. If I had to make a choice of who was more of an educated person I would say neither one. Perhaps we should say "well rounded educated person." I once new a foot ball player who was probably the smartest teenager I ever knew. He possessed social skills, book smarts and sports talent. I suppose all you really need is one of those things but he possessed all three. One thing he did not possess however was drive. So then I say that we must not fall into the pit of IQ tests and standardized jibber jabber. To test a person’s true "educated-ness" we must go deeper and really get to know the person. Some believe that it takes only a dummy to see a smart person but it takes a smart person to see a genius. Going back to the 3rd blog, we can say that maybe some people think on such a higher level that we think they are stupid and should just shuffle along but we are the ones mistaken. Galileo was banished for what he believed but that was only because people were to ignorant to expose them selves to new schools of thought.

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