What does it mean to be educated?
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I think that being educated means having enough of a knowledge and experience base to accomplish and set goals for your life.  It has nothing to do with degrees or certificates on the wall.  That can be big part of it, however.\n\nTake parenting for instance. Or being a patient in today's medical care system. Or a registered voter?  All of these things require a knowledge and experience base that doesn't have much to do with formal education.\n\nThe easiest "educated" person to deal with is one that knows they will never stop needing to learn.
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This says it best.....\n\nEducation is not preparation for life; education is life itself.\n\n- John Dewey\n\n\nPeace!
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Definitely!The term education is not just restricted to your textbooks.The term education encompasses moral as well as literary values.A world without proper education cannot be better place to live.Today,if we have the anti-socialists,the nationalists,the fanatics and the insurgents....the prime reason behind this is that they didn't get a proper educational backing.
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To learn and to be able to be knowledgeable on any range of subjects in order that you be intelligent and a productive member of society.\n\nAlso, as is suggested above, so that you learn how to express yourself clearly. So that people don't think that you are unintelligent due to your bad spelling.
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School, huh?\n\nOr do you mean learning things?\nLearning about things you dont even care about isnt that bad, it never hurts to have knowledge and be prepared for things to come. \n\nBut school (as the organisation) sux!\nIts focus is on subjects that prepare you for your work life and many times peoples potential gets strangled by the school system, even guys like Einstein didnt do so hot in school.\n\nThe old romans had a saying:\n\n"Non scholae sed vitae discimus"\nWhich supposedly means: Not for school but for life we learn.\n\nNow think that one over!\nIf you want to get technical about it it also means:\n\nSchool isnt life!\n\nSo there! \nWho needs it :p
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It is a colloquialism. It depends on the geographical area where one is educated. It is ambivalent in that either way is correct.
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Knowledge is the accumulation of facts or ideas.
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Besides the obvious one of academic learning and to graduate, is important that children get an education to broaden their perspective, to be exposed to a variety of opinions and people, to learn to cope with all  kinds of situations and individuals, to develop social skills,  and to have a more balanced outlook on life.
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The ability to read and understand what has been read.  To understand means to be able to apply that particular gained knowledge to something else.
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Nothing, knowledge is something that you have gained by learning something or some skill.\nBabies, have a brain capacity, which grows as the get older and mature. But there is no real knowledge stored there.\nThey are pre wired so to speak to be able to learn language that they receive from their parents.\nThen they learn more every day, and gain knowledge of everything they need.\nBrain capacity, is usually measured by how much knowledge it can hold and store.
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An undergraduate education is when you go to college and earn a Bachelor's degree.  (either a BA or a BS).  Take me for instance.  In three weeks I will graduate from college.  I will be getting a BA in History.  My undergraduate education is now finished.  \n\nJust so you know; a GRADUATE educations is when you study to receive graduate level degrees.  Such as a Master's Degree or a PhD.\n\nhope that helps.
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Being educated and having a diploma are two different things. I have known three or four people in my life who did not have a college education or in one case even a high school education but they are the best educated people I know. \n\nThey have common sense, a great love of reading and learning and the desire to get ahead.
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Good one.  Education is supposed to be a preparation for a lifetime.  It also means the process by which we are "formed" as if we were dough and could be shaped like a cookie.  They also call education to the process of learning and the information which programs our future behavior.  In the new millenium, the paradigm of education is no longer to "form" or "shape" us.  No longer to program or "feed" info on us, but instead, to help us realize our true potentials and help us be free, happy and aware of our own humanity.
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Because people do not understand the aim of education,,Education in school and uni.s is not only giving information (that is more in schools) , but mainly it teachs the person HOW to get information,,millions of books are there everywhere full of information (plus internet  ...etc), what ment by education is to enable the person to get the information and use it to solve a problem..(of course I am not talking about the basics)
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Knowledge, instead of ignorance!\nHuge benefit!
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I would say that it's "to educate someone unknown on a particular area of interest."  \n\nTours are generally given to educate people about a place - aka: university tour educates you on the location of buildings/classrooms and the university's history.
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Knowledge is nothing if you don't put it to use.\nWillingness means nothing if you don't do something.