What does it mean to be an educated man or woman? Is it through the way he dress or talk? Is it through how many languages he speak. Or is it through how much people he can feel superior from and how he can manipulate him? By definition, modern society would claim that it means that a person had undertaken extensive study at school and university. To more knowledgeable people, it is known that that is not necessarily a truth. It is more than the diplomas you receive. It is more than the manipulation you do. It is more than being smart and admitting that you know a lot.
Being smart does not only encompass the cognitive aspect of life but also the moral and physical foundation of our being. To fully understand how educated a person is, it is necessary to look at the journey of how one becomes educated. We have to remember that being educated takes on its different forms, not just only classroom based or from a formal setting.
Experience is the best teacher. I believe that in a an individual's life there will be things that a person will learn and then after fully understand that they only know to little about it that they want to learn more. Experience will continue to teach us that there is so much more we need to know.
We have to admit that learning is a never ending process. To be educated is not about admitting that you know a lot that stop on this. Knowing the things necessary for you to survive in life will help you but it is the things that you continue to learn about that will help you nourish these skills. It is about continuously learning and not stopping. The world is round and it keeps on spinning. It does not stop and so does the change our world undergoes. We have to learn to keep up with these changes.
Being smart is not about making a point and arguing, it is about reasoning. There are only two persons in this world; those who fool and those who are fooled-- to fool people does not mean that you are smart and to settle on "being fooled" does not make you smart either. Mainstream thinking without prior reasoning is not a characteristic of an educated man. To be educated is to counter-flow the bad when you know it is and not just follow everyone just because everyone's doing it. Being educated is making the "right" decisions in life not "followed".
It is unfortunate how many people are smart but do not fully act like one. (unfinished)
is about the journey of life. It's about living and loving your life. It's simple. It's plain. It's about "getting there".
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