Being considered as a “Well-educated” person is a topic that has been debated on several occasions by friends and family. There are a few in this debate who considered themselves very well-educated because of great financial success, another because of having many degrees. I find that the attitudes of people can make or break a person regardless of who they are or how much they have gained financially. The truth is it does not matter what a person may have in life, if ignorance precedes them, there is no way that this title is applicable. There are societies that believe the importance of being educated is by education status, academic goals, and a particular social status that has some degree of class or stature. For some people, social status can be about how many friends that are on social media, how many pictures they have, how much money is in a bank account, or what car they drive. Others define social status by joining social clubs, pageants, or community groups. The level of a good education status is hard to define and instead of defining what this means, why not ask about the purposes of education. Used as well are paradox statements to contradict the truth about people and how they can be seemingly smart but yet not have a clue about the most simple things.
The quality of education is being evaluated on what a student should know or be able to do to be considered as well-educated. The question of whether or not people seriously argue about this subject today is compared to whether people argued about this in the first century. I would like to think that education was important then as it is now. The skepticism may favor or be defensible depending on the subject matter but there must also be an acknowl... ... middle of paper ...
... into beyond academic goals to determine the answer.
THESIS
Being well-educated does not always consist of articulate people, successful business owners, prestigious scholars with a few degrees or decorated military. There are many who may say, that it is the quality of the person or the character that is more important. People are judged merely on what others may or may not assume, by what they see or by what is written with the possibility of not being a fact. Many people have been given some sort of status in life which can either lift a person up in importance or lower the quality status in life. Many have earned positions with the right to say they are “Well-educated” which is a fair representation or assessment of who they are or have become.
Works Cited
What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated? - Alfie Kohn
www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/welleducated.htm
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