Do you consider yourself an educated person? We're not talking about where you went to school or how many Jeopardy answers you can come up with. We're not even talking about everything you've learned from your experiences in the world. What we're asking is, are you educated? Do you know what you do and don't know? That is the true definition of an educated person.
Being educated means this: First, you recognize and admit what you don't know and what you need to know. Once you've admitted to yourself and the world that you don't know something, the next piece of being educated is knowing where and how to get what you need. Once you've got everything you need, the real trick is knowing how to use what you've gone out and gathered up.
Author/publisher William Feather seemed to have gotten this right when he defined education this way: "An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you need to know; and it's knowing how to use the information you get."
August Quiz Question
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