The Truly Educated Person

is willing to question - everything.

Malcolm Forbes explained it best when he said -
“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one”

And you just thought it was to fill it with facts so you could pass some sort of exam at the end of it didn't you !!

I consider that the truly educated person is willing to take whatever he/she has already learned and apply new information to that body of knowledge. In doing so, they are willing to challenge their thinking.

What happens usually though is that there are some people who read/hear or see something and if it doesn't fit with their current set of pre-conceived ideas, will discard the new information as being rubbish. If you've ever tried to have a conversation with someone who has very fixed ideas about something - "but that's the way it's always been" "But we've always done it that way" then you will know exactly what I mean.

How many times do you read the same book? I don't mean you read and read the same kinds of book, but the same book? Why should you read something more than once? Well there are many reasons, not least of which:

You don't pick everything up the first time.
You have different attitudes at different points in time, so you may dismiss something as not being important to you the first time you read something, but vital the next, because you have a different attitude towards yourself at the time of reading.
And of course, you read, you apply, you grow, you contemplate. Then you decide where you are missing some pieces to your personal puzzle, so you start reading again. Now you have a different set of life lessons to apply to the read through. Different lessons, different attitudes - every time. But leave a gap between reading sessions, simply because you will will read what you think you see....not what is actually there. And yes there are two "will"'s in that sentence.

The truly educated person I believe are not necessarily the ones who are talking the most, but the ones who are listening to what others have to say, and deciphering the messages based on their own body of knowledge.

The truly educated person may not be the ones earning the most money at the head of a corporation, although most leaders read more than the average person. The truly educated person will read and absorb the message, and then apply that to where they are now, and they may decide that they really don't need to earn a squillion dollars to live the kind of life they want to live.

The truly educated person knows they don't know everything there is to know - yet. Are you willing to become truly educated?

With Many thoughts,
Elle
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