Lyric Template - The Educated Person Mark Nicholson To be educated is a frame of mind not a measure of how much information one has accumulated. I had also been told, though Webster does not indicate this, that it s meaning ultimately derives from an ancient Greek word meaning to remember . What many think of as education is, in fact, training.
Training is the process of gaining facts and information or developing a skill.
We need to know things, we have to know how to do things in order to be successful or even to survive. An educated person can examine and appreciate that success and raises survival to the level of living. It is said, The unexamined life is not worth living. It is this examination of life that is the process of education. A dog or a monkey can hear a symphony as well, perhaps better, than a human can.