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Sunday, July 5, 2009

The Four Marks of an Educated Person

See how you fit in the educated person category:

1. He speaks and writes clearly and precisely. No matter how much information he has stored away, he's not educated until he's able to use his mother tongue with grace, precision and clarity.
2. She has a set of values and the courage to defend them. Knowledge and experience have given her the capacity to discriminate not only between right and wrong but between the trivial and the significant; between that which is cheap and that which has integrity.
3. He tries to understand his society and how it differs from others. He views these differences with compassion and respect. Whereas the uneducated man sees them as evidence of his own superiority, regarding the customs of others with condescension or contempt.
4. She looks squarely at the world and its problems, always with hope. She neither rejects nor fears the complexity and dangers of modern live, but accepts as her responsibility the task of making order out of complexity, opportunity out of danger.

Did you qualify on all four accounts?

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