What It Means To Be Educated
Many great people throughout history have claimed to be well educated, but what does it mean to be educated? Does graduating from a fancy Ivy League school or having a 4.0 mean that you are educated? Remember that just because you have a college degree does not make you smarter than everyone else. Education is commonly confused as knowledge. Education can not be measured, you are either educated or you are not. Being educated means to think, explore, and listen to ideas that are different then yours.
In Angels on a Pin the writer discussed that a boy was going to get a question wrong, because it wasn't the answer that they were looking for. A student that states that he has a couple of ways to answer the questions is thinking. Not just spitting out information that he acquired from reading a test book, or by what someone has told him. He concluded, “there are many ways of solving the problem.” …show more content…
You are there to make a deposit, and the more deposits that you make the more money that you have in the account. Also, while your money is sitting in the account it is working for you, and not just sitting there. When you go to make a withdrawal you can see that you can take out more than you put in. Banking is a lot like education, in that we need to always be adding to our supply. High school, college, and beyond we are always learn. Our lives are filled with ways that we can add to our education. There are things that we do that occupy our time, but do not benefit our knowledge account as well.
“Individuation, the process of learning to differentiate oneself from others. It is a psychological 'growing up. It means to discover those aspects of the self that distinguish one person from
Many great people throughout history have claimed to be well educated, but what does it mean to be educated? Does graduating from a fancy Ivy League school or having a 4.0 mean that you are educated? Remember that just because you have a college degree does not make you smarter than everyone else. Education is commonly confused as knowledge. Education can not be measured, you are either educated or you are not. Being educated means to think, explore, and listen to ideas that are different then yours.
In Angels on a Pin the writer discussed that a boy was going to get a question wrong, because it wasn't the answer that they were looking for. A student that states that he has a couple of ways to answer the questions is thinking. Not just spitting out information that he acquired from reading a test book, or by what someone has told him. He concluded, “there are many ways of solving the problem.” …show more content…
You are there to make a deposit, and the more deposits that you make the more money that you have in the account. Also, while your money is sitting in the account it is working for you, and not just sitting there. When you go to make a withdrawal you can see that you can take out more than you put in. Banking is a lot like education, in that we need to always be adding to our supply. High school, college, and beyond we are always learn. Our lives are filled with ways that we can add to our education. There are things that we do that occupy our time, but do not benefit our knowledge account as well.
“Individuation, the process of learning to differentiate oneself from others. It is a psychological 'growing up. It means to discover those aspects of the self that distinguish one person from