life

[words_of_ziggy]

if i could choose how to lead my life in any fashion. i would lead life as a Socrates. the term refers to a person who presues learning through questioning the known. if you can expand on what you know you eventually lead yourself into new and moreinteresting fields because wheither or not we realize it. Life it self is connected to everything

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[c0lt]

Knowlege makes a person educated - supreme knowlege. But ask yourself, how does one obtain knowlege? -_^

[words_of_ziggy]

knowledge is a collection of information. of no nessecary type.

[c0lt]

so, what you're saying is that.. if a person reads a the information on the toilet paper package, they gain knowlege of that product and are in turn - educated? -_^

I do believe it takes more than that to gain knowlege..
I believe it takes a lifetime of experiences - achievements - discoveries - to make a person knowlegable, and in turn - educated. :)
but that's my opinion.

[words_of_ziggy]

at that time it is only limitly educated but if they were to a mass a greater knowledge on the subject then yes he would be educated. do you know all there is to know about toilet paper.

[fireflypkb]

what educates a person is more fitting.

Philosophers never act, all they did was sit around of think of ways that things could change.

I need action.

[words_of_ziggy]

no we know what educates a person. their surroundings teach them. your friends, family, and teachers are the developement of education. Philosophers act not in the way we may act but thier actions bring fourth the motivation for our own actions.

[morwinyon]

Perhaps to answer your question with a question...

What kind of an education are you supposing is being pursued? Though generally Colt is right - education does imply some kind of aquired knowledge - it depends on what kind of education a person is seeking as to what the percieved marker would be that would label a person as 'educated'.

After all... a person could be able to recite for you, word for word, every history book in all the world... and yet they could be completely socially inept with not a friend in the world, or they could lack the most primal of so-called common knowledges that make our lives run smoothly (ex.: don't have a picnic in the middle of an interstate highway, etc.). Would you consider such a person to be educated? What about socially educated versus a quality book-education?

*shrug* An elaboration on the thought. ^_^

[words_of_ziggy]

you dont not discredit the person though. they are educated while being ignorant. simply put they are educated but not brilliant. the term educated doesnt mean you are smart it means you have a massed knowledge. we all know you can a mass knowledge in one field while neglecting the others. so if i knew every words of most history books but picniced in the middle of the highway i would still be educated.

[morwinyon]

True... but you misinterpret my point.

Granted you can't discredit them from the education they do have, but 'education' is not solely a term used to describe information derived and collected from books. You can be 'knowledgeable' in different ways... and in different aspects of life. The point is to define at what hallmark point a person recieves the label of 'educated'... and what hallmark would you give for different kinds of knowledge? Common-knowledge, Book-knowledge, Knowledge of the Heart, etc... At what point of experience and research does a person become educated? The point is more that a person can be educated in some ways while still being ineducated in others...

Not so much discrediting... but more on the side of observation.