What Does It Mean To Be an Educated Person?
Charles L. Slater,
Sept 19, 2005
Is this list right? I mean, it sounds like part Rudyard Kipling and part Robert A. Heinlein. And while those authors resonate with me, I will nonetheless probably never be a musician or an althlete, my poetry is best kept private, and I will certainly never subscribe to the simple moral theory suggested by the author. And it seems to me that an educated person not only knows how to lead, but also how and when and why to follow as well. Perhaps there is something like a definition of an educated person that can be found - but I think it's more likely to be something defined more inwardly, something like, a person who lives a reflective life, and lives and acts according to the light afforded by that reflection. The rest is optional. Via PEN.
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