What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated


Does the phrasewell-educatedrefer to a quality of the schooling you received, or to something about you? Does it denote what you were taught, or what you learned (and remember)?

If the term applies to what you now know and can do, you could be poorly educated despite having received a top-notch education

would anyone seriously say that our criteria for “well-educated” today are exactly the same as those used a century ago – or that they should be?


Does Merely sitting in classrooms for hours make one well-educated.



Test scores. To a disconcerting extent, high scores on standardized tests signify a facility with taking standardized tests. Most teachers can instantly name students who are talented thinkers but who just don’t do well on these exams – as well as students whose scores seem to overestimate their intellectual gift



what disciplines does a college student need to study before he or she is truly “well educated”


what, exactly, defines a well-educated person. Does it include being multi-lingual, or having a firm grasp of history, or knowing ? Does it include algebra, or chemistry, or biology