I honestly am glad you have asked that question. I think that the only people who believe they are well-educated are those pretenious individuals who believe that their degree makes them. I am about to get a Masters (May 2007) and i do not believe that I am well educated. It is not a reflection of my school, (listed in top 20 in the U.S.) I think being well educated means that I am inteligent enough to know that i am not any smarter because i have a degree. What it actually means is that i have a bunch of student loans. And someone is going to pay me for having two degrees. I understand that, and accept that is how the world workd. Someone with 10 years experience, and i come on board with my two degrees, not only am i going to be paid more, but chances are i might end up being there boss. It is f' up. But understanding how the world works and what it takes to survive in it, makes a person well educated. Honestly i don't even know where my degree from undergraduate is, but if someone ask me to prove that i have one, i can. You know people who get hired because they know someone, or have a family member at the job, that is what a degree does, it is your hook-up at the company. They might not have looked at you before, but now you got some papers, you can come in.
2006-09-25 11:04:25
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answered by upfromnutin 2
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First, I can fill all those jeopardy answers right in! hahaha!
Ok, knowing a lot of trivia is not a bad thing, because pretty soon it turns out that when a new situation pops up, you can relate it to one of the examples you already know about. -- The fictional detective Sherlock Holmes used to do that to solve all his cases..
So, I learned a lot of dates, names, places etc. when I was in school and they definitely have come in handy when I didnt expect it
Second, a lot of school is about how to analyze things. When you go to Humungous State U and spend your education filling in multiple choice computer forms, you dont really get a lot of experience at thinking. But if you go to a small school or an elite school, you often are in small classes where the profs really nail you. You cant weasel out... they give a problem and you have to explain in front of the class how to deal with it. And you get to work in small groups and practice how to make a group work well. That's a really good job and life skill!! Being in a small group with a good prof is a great experience - you have this guy who has spent his whole life thinking about a certain subject and there you are in the room with him for an hour. You can really discuss it, get into the details and understand all about it. That's WAAY different from sitting in a big class taking a few notes while you nod off....
Third, you are not just going to work in your life. There are tremendously interesting things in the world - art and music and nature that you never even dreamed existed. You would not know about them unless someone pointed them out to you. A good prof does that. And that is a gift that last your whole life.
I dont think that the piece of paper you get from a lot of schools is worth very much in terms of being "educated" but if you dig into the school, or you have the tremendous luck to be able to attend one of the elite schools where you are surrounded by and interacting with really smart people, then you get a real education that enriches your life.
2006-09-25 08:49:16
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answered by matt 7
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What does it mean to be educated? My definition or the worlds? Being well educated should be being wise. Wisdom is a combination of knowlege and an understanding of what to do with that knowledge. To most, education is the accumulation of knowledge. But that is only half of the requirements for wisdom. That definition lacks the training of what to do with the knowledge.
Knowledge without wisdom is like skills without a job or purpose, it's like bathwater without the baby.
Education should be training in knowledge for the purpose of applying that knowledge to a useful and beneficial purpose. Any lesser definition relegates the student to nothing more than a repository for the accumulation of trivia, with no purpose greater than filling the Jeopardy TV time slot.
2006-09-25 08:20:30
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answered by ? 4
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Education as defined by corporate society means having a piece of lambskin (or paper) that says you finished a certain number of years of college.
Real Education comes from experience, and the willingness to learn, and often has absolutely nothing to do with College, or that piece of paper.
2006-09-25 08:11:11
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answered by Anonymous
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