Everyone Should Be Educated
When a person states they have a degree, it is usually thought of that they have been to college, learned and studied in their field, and graduated. A person, in all reality, can have a multitude of degrees and not really be educated. When a person is educated, they have thought processes of their own, they think independently, they do not need a teacher because they are their own, and they fully comprehend their field of study. When a person is educated, they have their own thoughts and ideas, as Booth discusses. Ideas are complex thoughts that lead to other ideas, generate other ideas, and they are able to produces more than one side of an argument. In order to have real ideas that make points and lead to other ideas, one, must be educated.
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That is the hope for all students. Although, when students go through high school, everything they need to lean is handed to them. When a student goes to college, the goal is for the students to be able to generate ideas, think for themselves, and learn without guidance before graduating. No matter what field someone goes into, the people who the outcomes effect are going to want them to be educated. Pellegrino makes excellent criteria for an educated person, and what they need to do. Is the students able to learn independently, ask critical questions, comprehend what they read, act based only on their own beliefs, respond to judgments, and think independently in a political scenario. These criteria, if met, make it easy for a person to be able to not only educated themselves but others as well, and to be able to create and envision ideas that could lead to breakthroughs. Doctors for example must be educated because they have to continue to learn because the medical field has new discoveries every day. If a doctor is uneducated, it means he will not be able to treat patients that have symptoms beyond common colds. In reflection, a person should always strive for education and ideas, not just a degree because without an education, a person will be perpetually stuck at the same
That is the hope for all students. Although, when students go through high school, everything they need to lean is handed to them. When a student goes to college, the goal is for the students to be able to generate ideas, think for themselves, and learn without guidance before graduating. No matter what field someone goes into, the people who the outcomes effect are going to want them to be educated. Pellegrino makes excellent criteria for an educated person, and what they need to do. Is the students able to learn independently, ask critical questions, comprehend what they read, act based only on their own beliefs, respond to judgments, and think independently in a political scenario. These criteria, if met, make it easy for a person to be able to not only educated themselves but others as well, and to be able to create and envision ideas that could lead to breakthroughs. Doctors for example must be educated because they have to continue to learn because the medical field has new discoveries every day. If a doctor is uneducated, it means he will not be able to treat patients that have symptoms beyond common colds. In reflection, a person should always strive for education and ideas, not just a degree because without an education, a person will be perpetually stuck at the same