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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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In the essay, "The Educated Person," Professor Thomas B. Jones recalls the daze he was in as he graduated from college, and his realization that he did not feel like he was an educated person. I suppose this must mean that Jones has become an "educated person" now.
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Definition: Educated ... 3. Adequately educated in the use of numerical terms and concepts especially in arithmetical operations. ... Date "educated" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)
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This essay was written in response to a class discussion about what it means to be an educated person. While a few ideas were brought up during this conversation, most ideas and thoughts are my own feelings on what it means to be "educated."
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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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"Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire." ~ William Butler Yeats ... It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ~ Aristotle...
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