Education, continued
EDUCATION, CONTINUED
The dictionary defines educate, educated, and education as follows:
To educate: To develop the faculties and power of a person by teaching, instruction, or schooling. To qualify by instruction or training for a particular calling, practice, etc. To train.
Educated: Characterized by or displaying qualities of culture and learning.
Education: The act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge and of developing the powers of reasoning and judgment.
The act or process of imparting or acquiring a particular knowledge or skills as for a trade or profession.
A certain distinction is made between education and training.
Education is the development of the special and general abilities of the mind (learning to know): a liberal education.
Training is practical education (empirical, learning to do by experience) or practice, usually under supervision, in some art, trade, or profession: training in art, teacher training.
There are those who believe that to be educated means getting through high school or college and getting a degree. However having a diploma or degree is no prof of education.
One philosophy teacher (My undergraduate work was in Philosophy and Psychology) has listed six characteristics that identify the educated man. (Harold H. Titus, "Living Isssues in Philosophy," pp.527-529.) I think they are well worth considering.
1. To be educated means to know at least one field with some throughness. Education should be in part a preparation for one's vocation.
2. To be educated means to be able to communicate with others, to be able to speak and write one's native language with a high degree of competence.
3. To be educated means to be able to live in a changing world and to entertain new ideas.
4. To be educated means to be able to get along with others.
5. To be educated means to be able to entertain oneself, to develop a rich inner life and a wide range of appreciations and inner controls.
6. To be educated is to be sensitive to the larger spiritual order of which man is a part.
The dictionary defines educate, educated, and education as follows:
To educate: To develop the faculties and power of a person by teaching, instruction, or schooling. To qualify by instruction or training for a particular calling, practice, etc. To train.
Educated: Characterized by or displaying qualities of culture and learning.
Education: The act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge and of developing the powers of reasoning and judgment.
The act or process of imparting or acquiring a particular knowledge or skills as for a trade or profession.
A certain distinction is made between education and training.
Education is the development of the special and general abilities of the mind (learning to know): a liberal education.
Training is practical education (empirical, learning to do by experience) or practice, usually under supervision, in some art, trade, or profession: training in art, teacher training.
There are those who believe that to be educated means getting through high school or college and getting a degree. However having a diploma or degree is no prof of education.
One philosophy teacher (My undergraduate work was in Philosophy and Psychology) has listed six characteristics that identify the educated man. (Harold H. Titus, "Living Isssues in Philosophy," pp.527-529.) I think they are well worth considering.
1. To be educated means to know at least one field with some throughness. Education should be in part a preparation for one's vocation.
2. To be educated means to be able to communicate with others, to be able to speak and write one's native language with a high degree of competence.
3. To be educated means to be able to live in a changing world and to entertain new ideas.
4. To be educated means to be able to get along with others.
5. To be educated means to be able to entertain oneself, to develop a rich inner life and a wide range of appreciations and inner controls.
6. To be educated is to be sensitive to the larger spiritual order of which man is a part.
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