What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated?

To opinionate or to be opinionated as defined by Webster means to have an unduly adhering to one's own opinion or to preconceived notions. In “laymen’s terms“ basically it is to strongly stick to one’s own point of view. If education is so vast than how can someone be “well” at it? ~Kohn reveals that his wife who is a physician is hesitant at times reciting multiplication. This does not mean she is uneducated when indeed she may be responsible for saving someone’s life. Yet because she cannot teach a math class or write the President’s inauguration speech it portrays as if she is not “erudite” Contrarily speaking does the fact that she is a Physician depicts as her being smarter than someone who works performs “blue collar” work? Does some levels of education coexist with one’s occupation?

Often society places a label on things. Such as if you see someone wearing baggy jeans and a tank top you would not assume this person worked for a Fortune 500 company. On the other hand imagine a male who just won Jeopardy that cannot perform something a common task such as checking the oil in a vehicle. The baggy jeans guy can in fact be a scientist who is embarking on an invention that change mankind. Perception plays a huge role in judgment for people. Contrarily perception is not fact. It is no way possible that man can learn everything there is to know. Therefore the level of someone’s education does not vary among career fields. Rarely when the term well educated is brought up is not associated with a person knowing it all.

Recently I was driving and happened to catch a radio discussion concerning education and it’s impact on success. The host of the show brings up the topic of athletes and their large pay scale. The host fel...

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...this form. The person who initially created the tactics we use are no smarter than one’s modify them for efficiency and vice versa. Here we realize that education is like time, it does not end. Thus the expression. “you learn something new everyday”

In summary, we annotate that society forms the opinion of a person being well educated. In addition, the perception is based merely on the accreditations earned from an institute of “higher” learning. Also it is factored with the type of employment a person possesses. This theory indeed proves itself wrong. This is due to the fact that people and technology never seem to stop advancing. Thus explaining the theory of a person being well educated to be an well educated factor. The evidence for this is simple. How can a person be proficient in something that has no limits? Remember WE all learn something new everyday.