What do you think it means to be "well-educated"?

Question

What exactly would a well-educated person know? In what areas would they be knowledgeable?

Maybe I should reword it. . . . .think of someone you knew who you thought was well-educated. Specifically what types of things did the know? What all had they studied?

Answer 1

To be well-educated, one should be able to do the following:
(1) communicate well both in conversation and in writing
(2) understand the principles of logic and debate and be able to recognize logical fallacies and sophistry
(3) have a basic grasp of world history, world geography, world politics, and the world's religions
(4) be able to read, write, speak, and understand at least one foreign language
(5) be familiar with the most important literary works both recent and past that were written in his mother tongue
(6) have experience with people from various nations, cultures, and ethnic backgrounds
(7) be familiar with the basic tenets of math and science
(8) have a fairly extensive vocabulary including both formalistic terminology, area-specific jargon, idiomatic expressions, and slang or popular speech in his own language
(9) be familiar with several art movements and their most important or representative artists
(10) have had some experience reading music and playing a musical instrument

That should do for a start. ;-)

Answer 2

"Well-educated" is a phrase that people who fancy themselves well-educated use to talk about their or a higher standard of knowledge. So, like beauty and happiness, knowledge is in the eye of the beholder. In my opinion, a well-educated person is someone who doesn't necessarily know everything, but cares about things that are important and can at least have an opinion about anything of which they are asked. The ability to read and write isn't bad either.

Answer 3

there are 2 types of stored mental memory, knowledge and wisdom. knowlege is knowing things worldly and simple. Wisdom is common sence and knowlege of human pesonality. But a well-educated person is just smart. He thinks more than an average person.

Answer 4

I think it would have to be the person knows how to apply the knowledge they have into practice. Unstead of some one who just goes to school all of their lives and ends up teaching

Answer 5

The phrase has no meaning.