Do You Have What it Takes? A Breakdown of the Educated Person
An educated person is a well rounded person. To be educated is to
knowledgeable in many areas. Diversity is essential in the sense that many
different things inspire thought, which then derive permanent conclusions from
these experiences. Anyone who has the audacity to call themselves educated
needs to have a firm grasp of many different areas. These categories span
through Science, Technology, Language, Art, Feelings and Values. All of these
are building blocks that help make up an educated person, but just as important,
these are the same qualities that form an individual.
One of the most important concepts that a person learns from Science is
a fundamental thinking process. This process starts with curiosity, asking the
question," Why does that work?" It then moves on to theorizing or guessing.
Next, this person takes his or her theory and puts it to the test by conducting
various experiments. Finally this individual will draw a final conclusion from
those findings. Science also helps a person look at things objectively, which
means there is no feelings influencing experiments that can lead to fraudulent
conclusions. This can be a double edged sword however, because in many
instances when a scientist is emotionally removed from the experiments performed,
the question, "Should I?", is never asked. For instance under the reign of
Hitler many cruel medical experiments were preformed. In The Medical
Experiments by William Shirer the author states,"Prisoners were placed in high
pressure chambers and subjected to high-altitude tests until they ceased
breathing. They were injected with lethal doses of typhus and jaundice. They
were subjected to 'freezing' experiments in icy water or exposed naked in the
snow outdoors until they froze to death." This also deals with the subject of
values and will be discussed detail later.
Probably the most positive way to utilize Science would be to take it to
the next level, Technology. This is were an educated person takes what laws and
theories he learns in science and integrates them into everyday life, finding
ways to make life easier and arguably better. I say arguably because many
educated people are against technological advancement. These...
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...m any language. Susanne K. Langer in
her article The Cultural Importance of Art states,"There is, however, an
important part of reality that is quite inaccessible to the formative influence
of language: that is the realm of so-called "inner experience," the life of
feeling and emotion.
All of these attributes lose power without an individual set of values
to focus this energy. Adolf Hitler influenced millions by being a masterful
orator. Hitler also was very innovative in science and many other areas.
However do to his grossly warped sense of personal values he was labelled by
leaders and peers as a madman.
It is very difficult for any person to be a master of all of these
categories, but to be truly educated, there needs to be at least a small
concentration of everything in that individual's background. For the one reason
that it is so difficult to posses all of these traits, it is also that same
reason that makes all of the truly educated people of our past stand out in
history as heros and leaders. This is also the biggest reason that so many
people admire them and strive to be like them.
Does the amount of schooling measure a person’s intelligence level? The essay “Blue Collar Brilliance” written by Mike Rose, argue that the intelligent a person has should not be measure under the amount of schooling, using the example of his uncle, who did not get a formal education, become the head of general motor. As for this, Rose suggest that education should be taken as priority. I agree with Rose point of view because the one who get formal education do not symbolize success. In older generation, many people could not afford the tuition, however they can also succeed. In the other word, having formal education does not grantee us a successful future.
Marcus Tullius Cicero, a famous Roman author, once said, “To each his own”. The quote simply means everyone is different in some type of way. A person can be charismatic, naive, or idiotic. Certain traits that a person owns can be defined by an independent archetype or, in many cases, multiple. The seeker, the sage, and the innocent, can particularly make up an individual that is loved by some, hated by many, enjoying life too much to live vicariously through people’s words and care about anything but himself.
To be intelligent means to be able to apply what we learned in school and use what we learned in our everyday life to achieve a goals that is sit or one that we are accomplishing without knowing. Many people think that a person is intelligent because they went to a university, got a degree, and have a good paying job, so they must be smart and know everything however thats not always true. If we would ask a teacher or professor the chances of them knowing how to fix a car are slim. So why do we think teachers are so intelligent? We think teachers are intelligent because they know everything about their subjects, know how to teach it and know how to apply their knowledge to their everyday lives.
take on distinctively contrasting traits. The first thought that came to mind upon comparing the
...et who is to determine the evidence and theory to determine whether it is ad hoc? More importantly, when interpreting this, no matter who does it, how will you get past induction when interpreting the theory and/or evidence?
That notion has been instilled in our head since we were kids. What makes us so different from each other is our personality; every personality that we acquire fits each and every unique individual. Unfortunately there are some cases where some people’s personality can become a bit extreme and cause problems not only for themselves but also to others who deal with them (loved ones, coworkers, teachers, etc.). In this case the personality stop becoming little quirks that make person who they are but disorders that consumes the person and become unbearable at times. These disorders manifest themselves as configurations of traits that are considered non-desirable, but to some there are a few of these traits that are considered very desirable when they’re not dealing with
After analyzing Alfie Kohn’s article; “What Does It Mean to Be Well-Educated?” I found this article very interesting. Society has often labeled many as well-educated and uneducated. Who gives Society the right to define who we are? According to the Free Dictionary, it gives one meaning of well-educated as “Possessing an education having more than average knowledge.”2. How can we define being educated verses’ being well-educated? Kohn insists “The Point of Schooling: Rather than attempting to define what it means to be well-educated, should we instead be asking about the purposes of education?” 1. Must one be considered well-educated who obtain a degree or specializes in a certain field of interest, at a prestige institution of higher learning?
...es that we are all unique in our own way and at some point will realize our potential and try to achieve more not that our genes made us act the way we do.
As the saying goes, “Knowledge is power.”. In 1979, The President was well of the truth in this statement when he presented this idea to Congress and The Department of Education was created. For our government to survive as a Democracy, was understood that citizens must be educated and well informed to comprehend the politics our society and the ones surrounding us. This is why it is I am able to apply and attend universities and reach higher goals in my education.
the scientific method. If they participate, they will be asked to answer six questions about
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?
Next the psychologist will form a hypothesis after they will then make a prediction on the hypothesis. Then the psychologist will test your prediction by doing and experiment such as a survey. The population for this survey will be inmates at a number of jails in the state of New Jersey. A survey is chosen because it is the most convenient way to sample dispersed subjects.
What is the standard of being well educated? Is it to fluently speak English? Or is it to engineer the newest product? Being well educated, is it to be well mannered? Perhaps, being well educated is to attend an esteemed Ivy League institute? Could a well-educated person not have attended a prestigious university? Is being well-educated transcultural? Further, is being well-educated absolute? Frankly, today’s definition of being well educated is not constant from culture-to-culture or person-to-person; that is, its definition is not absolute. Although the details of being well educated may differ from culture-to-culture and person-to-person, a consistent truth that tends to interlink with being well educated is having the knowledge to fulfill one’s dreams, regardless of particularly where one attains the knowledge.
Raymond B. Cattell (1906-1998) studied the personality traits of large groups of people, calling the visible features of their personalities “surface traits.” During his studies, Cattell observed that certain “surface traits” would appear simultaneously in individuals. When Cattell noticed this trend occurring frequently he renamed the group of “surface traits” “source traits”. At the conclusion of his research Cattell identified sixteen “source traits.”
...rked fears of the return of the university system geared toward the wealthy. Society needs the higher educated, because the educated do serve a purpose. Not everyone is as blessed as the fortunate few to have obtained a higher education. Society needs professionals (doctors, lawyers, and engineers). It also needs artiest, essay writing professors, philosophers and politicians. In certain ways the educated owe it to the society they came from to make it a better, more diverse living environment, for everyone including themselves.