Essays on Educated Person

Every person has particular characteristics and qualities. An educated person obtains particular knowledge and knows how to use it effectively. The core quality of an educated person is the “sense that that person has learned how to engage in the dynamic between established knowledge and critical inquiry” (Bereiter & Scaamalia, 2012). An educated person is able to find an intrinsic value of the things and has wide interests. Intellectual growth is an integral part of the educational process. Besides, an educated person has intellectual creativity, and can play with the ideas by offering different possibilities. Education impacts future job, well-being ...

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When one hears about an educated person, what comes to their mind is the level of education, their discoveries, their social class and value to the people. Being an educated person is quite a noble achievement in the society, and allows one to walk tall over the others. It is the reason politicians, professors, engineers, and doctors among other professionals have more respect than the local news vendor, mailman or supermarket attendant. However, the notion created by the society is wrong since education does not depend on the number of certificates one has but how they treat the common ...

It is a well-known fact that literacy is a key factor of success. Every educated person has a good writing and reading command of the language. Moreover, there is no respectful person that does not know at least one or even more foreign languages, which is now a necessity. Literacy nowadays plays an extremely important role in the up-to-day society. In the article Why Adolescent Literacy Matters Now written by Jacy Ippolito, Jennifer L. Steele, and Jennifer F. Samson the importance of literacy, namely adolescent literacy is discussed. Why adolescent literacy? Mainly because the basics of adult literacy lies ...