What does it really mean to be educated?

[Figaro]

What does it really mean to be educated?
A lot of people go around saying they're educated. Does it only mean having a a slip of paper from "accredited" university which proves that you attended a few dozen classes and achieved a good enough grade point average and enough credits to graduate according to that institution's criteria?

Or, is being educated mean that you have (through either schooling or hands-on experience) the required skills to join the work force?

Or is being educated something entirely different? What about the bushmen of the Kalahari? Surely, their education and hands-on learning helps them survive, hunt, gather and sustain themselves in what is sometimes a harsh living environment

 

[MarathonMike]

There is an implied 4 year college degree (at least) with the term "educated". However there are plenty of college grads who are neither knowledgeable or skilled and conversely plenty of non-college grads who are very intelligent, skilled and well read. There is unfortunately a huge bias toward having the Sheepskin.

 

[AquaAthena]

There is an implied 4 year college degree (at least) with the term "educated". However there are plenty of college grads who are neither knowledgeable or skilled and conversely plenty of non-college grads who are very intelligent, skilled and well read. There is unfortunately a huge bias toward having the Sheepskin.

Common sense is the rarest form of intelligence.

 

[regent]

For most of us education never ends, but what we are learning may be questionable. For
example, these boards and other means can be part of that continuing education that adds new "useful" knowledge, and for others the education consists of adding new names to call people.

 

[Unkotare]

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[xband]

Educated is being smart and wary that may or may not be learned in college. I attended the School of Hard Knocks which eventually made me wealthy.

 

[psikeyhackr]