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What does it mean to be an educated person? According to Merriam- Webster’s Dictionary definition, to be educated is someone who has learned how to acquire, analyze, synthesize, evaluate, understand, and communicate knowledge and information. I believe that being well-educated means, you need to have a degree in a specific field and also be able to excel and easily adapt to a different field with substantial amount of knowledge to it.
For some people, being educated means you need to have a college degree and that’s enough to be called an “educated person.” Being “well-educated” is measured by how wide your knowledge to anything. Learning does not stop after college, every day you learn new ideas, concepts, and events. For me, being educated means you have to apply what you learn in school, be able to adapt to new surrounding by being a well-rounded in the knowledge that is fundamental to our society and have the ability to listen, think critically, reason analytically, imagine creatively, articulate verbally, explore alternative viewpoints, maintain intellectual curiosity and speak and write persuasively.
In the workplace, applying what you learned and developed during college years are essential to be successful in whatever endeavors in life. Having a complex brain functions can help you adapt to new situations and stimuli. Being a well-rounded person helps you to be able to adapt to new situations because your knowledge does not only pertains to one specialty but with different specialties. When we are faced by new problems, we are able to think critically, reason analytically, and make intellectual decisions. We don’t only learn in school, but we learn through our life experiences as well. We learn from it, and we apply it through our daily living and routine. We learn from real life situations, not by scientific situations. One of the places where real life learning process takes place is in the workplace. We are natural learners, we are able to learn and