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Defining an Educated Person

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Education is one of the top three priorities and components of today’s civilized societies along with health and economy. This is what experts concluded and frankly, this is what I personally think. Education is the basic component of building a modern, civilized society so it should be considered a very important issue. Education starts in the early stages of our lives and continues in many ways and forms during our lifetime so it is a lifelong process. In my opinion an educated person is a person of Enlightenment, who searches for excellence, one who does not take things for granted, one who is concerned about people and things around him or her. One of the most important results of the educational process is that through its various tools and experiences can set our mind in the direction of a continuous curiosity, a continuous learning process and personal development. Education is knowledge and knowledge is powerful tool. It can help you to think rationally, to make judgments, to make the difference between right and wrong. For some people however, there is a hunger, an innate need to continue learning. This is the beginning of the development of an educated person. The more information they know, the more they realize they do not know. In some of us, it can start as a little sparkle of interest to become a tremendous fire of desire, fire which can not be extinguished. It can free us not just mentally, but through this, as we have many examples, it can free us physically too. This is what happened to Frederick Douglas who describes in his autobiography, “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, an American Slave”, how the fact that he learned to read and to write transformed him, which helped make him a free men. It was this everlasting thinking of my condition that tormented me. There was no getting rid of it. It was pressed upon me by every object within sight or hearing, animate or inanimate. The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness. Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. (Douglas 197-201) This process, known as education, can take on many forms and is rarely the same for any two people. Education is not the learning of any one piece of information or area of study, but t

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