What It Means To Be Educated

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Education is something that is always discussed by people but has never really had a definite meaning. No one really has an exact way to say if someone is in fact educated, or what it even means to be educated in the first place. A general consensus seems to be that one is informed when you have a large pool of knowledge to pull from and can spout generally esoteric facts. While that is something that may make a person intelligent, it does not necessarily correlate to being educated. Being educated is to have the ability to base opinions and stances on a strong foundation of facts, rather than just knowing a large number of things. Facts, should be the backbone of anyone’s beliefs, even if one’s opinion is wrong, as long as it has basis in

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