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articles by alfie kohn ... No one should offer pronouncements about what it means to be well-educated without meeting my wife. When I met Alisa, she was at Harvard, putting the finishing touches on her doctoral dissertation in anthropology.
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www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/welleducated.htm
www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/welleducated.htm
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As I look back now, especially after having taken Introduction to Ethics last semester and with Drew broadening its own liberal arts philosophy to include such learning in the new general education requirements, I now understand the significance of the liberal arts philosophy and what it truly means to become educated.
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www.drewacorn.com/2.5513/what-it-means-to-become-educat...
www.drewacorn.com/2.5513/what-it-means-to-become-educated-1.841279
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While education is on every politician's agenda as an item of serious importance, it is astonishing that the notion of what it means to be educated never seems to come up.
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www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0391.html?printable=1
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People like Aristotle and Plato are considered by almost anyone as very educated and wise individuals. But what makes these men or anyone else that may be considered an educated person earn that heir of respect?
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newmedia.alma.edu/210spring2003/barton/portfolio/ported...
newmedia.alma.edu/210spring2003/barton/portfolio/porteducated.html
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Here is my understanding of what it means to be educated as it stands now. I feel that to be educated, you must have a well-rounded knowledge of a variety of academic topics and subjects. In addition to this you must possess minimum inter-personal skills and experience in dealing with other human beings.
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www.newmedia.alma.edu/210spring2003/kruse/portfolio/edu...
www.newmedia.alma.edu/210spring2003/kruse/portfolio/educated.html
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There needs to be serious dialogue and reassessment of what education means, and what it means to be educated in the truest sense of the word.
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www.rastaspeaks.com/tyehimba/2004/1511.html
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Traditionally, and especially during the last two hundred or three hundred years, at least in the West (and since about that time in Japan, as well), an educated person was somebody who shared a common stock of formal knowledge--some who had what the Germans call an Allgemein Bildung (a general education) and the...
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www.hi.is/~joner/eaps/y3_07882.htm
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however, this doesn't mean that they are educated. The monetary rewards to be derived from vocational training are. Yet, it has occurred to me that there should be more meaningful general education courses in schools throughout America that teach children how to think in a logical and pragmatic way.
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www.willcoxrangenews.com/articles/2007/03/27/news/edito...
www.willcoxrangenews.com/articles/2007/03/27/news/editorial_opinions/edit2.txt
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Nation's Restaurant News via NewsEdge : ... The autocratic design of the modern classroom, with the teacher in front lecturing dutiful pupils aligned in symmetrical rows, traces its roots back to 14th century ... That same format was adopted throughout Europe and then presented to America's 19th century factory barons,
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abtweb.newsedge.com/1stbin/read_story/FIRST/080506/6/15...
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