None of the diplomas/degrees can help you to become an educated being. Unfortunately in our society, education of a person is measured by the degrees he has earned. There are a number of degree holders, like you and I, who are compartmentalized in their field of specialization. We do keep ourselves updated on new technologies, new inventions and discoveries in our field of work, and the current happennings around the world. But not all of us take efforts in educating ourselves at personal level. Our social and economical system preconditions us in a manner that we stop thinking about growing and improving ourselves.
Becoming an educated being means more than simply knowing things. It relates more to how you apply what you know in your daily life even in mundane activities. It means to be able to deal with changes in life and sometimes become the cause of the change. It means to get out of the closed box thinking and open your mind to things not common to you.
Education never stops. In everything we do there is a lesson, it is upto us to recognize and learn it.
Schooling is not necessary to become an educated being. But it definitely provides (or used to) a rich environment to facilitate it. If you go to school just to attend classes, do assignments, and get grades then you are wasting your time. I did. School is not just about grades and degrees. It is a place where you get an opportunity to interact with all sorts of people. You can learn a lot from the experienced ones and shape your personal growth. The other advantage of going to school is that you learn to handle yourself even in unpleasant situations and trust me there can be many. The reward is not the degree, but the person you become at the end of it. The purpose is to learn how to learn.
You are becoming an educated being if you have a desire to learn new things. You are constantly looking to improve yourself in all possible ways. You are always burning with curiosity. You have high self esteem. You don’t have the fear of not being smart enough. You know that you are worth in this world and have the ability to learn anything that is needed to fulfill your purpose.
Being educated means that you can think. You have a mind of your own. You don’t follow the crowd. You look at the problems and ideas differently. You know that there is more to life than job and money, and that’s you. It is all about who you are and what you become.
So, are you one of the well-trained, highly skilled labors or an educated being?
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