Edmund Pellegrino: The Value Of Education

Today's society revolves around getting an education whether it is going to college, a technical school, or a vocational school. Having accomplished a higher discipline emanates a false sense of the meaning of being educated. An individual who takes the time to consider different points of view and does not jump when the 'experts' say jump without any thought could be considered, under the standpoint of Northup Frye and Edmund Pellegrino, to be educated and a good citizen who contribute to their community. An informed citizen and a responsible citizen come hand in hand for the most part, but there are people who have been 'educated' and have leeched onto the fictitious idea that everything they believe is wholeheartedly correct disregarding everything else. …show more content…
As Northrup Frye said "an informed citizen is an embodied knower: a person, who seeks information, considers conflicting discourse, is reflective and used critical thinking skills". If there was one sentence to summarize what Pellegirno wanted the individual to take away from his speech it would have to be Frye's because to use critical thinking skills, exercise relativism, and actively seek information is much more difficult than it appears to be and that's what I took away from Pellegrino- that being educated is difficult and that some people get stuck in an illusion. An illusion that "plague[s] the honest person [which is] . . . particularly seductive in a technological society like ours" ( Pellegrino 121). According to Pellegrino and Frye, to be considered an educated person the individual must also be a responsible citizen. My concept of this level of education that Pellegrino and Frye share relates to what Dana Gioia talks about; education is its purest form through