What Does It Mean To Be Well-Educated Summary

In the article “What Does It Mean to Be Well-Educated”, the author Alfie Kohn discusses the wide meaning of well-educated and breaks it down in terms of academics and common knowledge. Kohn states in the article that there are many people in the world who do have brilliant ideas, but do not necessarily know how to put them down using correct grammar skills. The author firstly addresses that education is not always first priority, that the main target towards education is to create good and creative people. Kohn states that the meaning towards well-educated is not critiqued as what you know and what you have learned, but what type of teaching methods you were given. Also stated was that test scores display people who are smart, but yet do not