Do you think a better education makes a better person?

Certificates and diplomas on the wall doesnt necessarily make a person better than the rest. Attitude still counts, there are some people graduated from a highly re[utable university but are airheads in a way boastful, egoistic, and not open minded. Its just a title but still you have to prove your worth. There are some who doesnt have an education but very skillful and knows how to climb his way up the right way. attitude and character are my basis in seeing a person.

I truly believe that education makes a better person, with education you can thinking becomes broader and you know what world is all about. With better education you will get opportunity to work in big companies, it is only through education you will be having higher income and you can visit whole world. With better education you will get better job and income and you can help other poor peoples in society and you becomes good person.

My father in law, who is a certified Genius honest, has a saying that I love and so agree with... "Don't let your education get in the way of your learning" I have seen it too many times, those that think if it didn't come out of a book, it's not worth learning. Also those that once school taught them something, that was the truth so nothing new can be accepted. I think wisdom, which is learned from living, is what makes the person. Wisdom is not taught, but only gained.

As you have specified the case of two people in a work environment, one has to admit that a highly educated person is better than a not so educated person, however hard he may have worked his way up. Say, fo example, if a consultant who has umpteen medals attached to his meritorious c.v and is from Harvard, would he not be considered superior to the less fortunate colleague? If it is qualification it is one thing. All his skills have been honed in the best way and he has obviously got training in the right direction which gives him the sharpness of intellect and application of mind in comparison to the colleague. Here we are talking about a better person as far as his job entails. Now, what you say is right -that a highly educated person need not necessarily be a well educated person because we assume that education builds character also. So, if a highly qualified person lacks basic humanity, compassion, and is arrogant and loathsome the general term used in our regional language is an 'educated fool.' Regarding other qualities like kindness, and attitude towards people at work we should give what we get. Never be rude, but never be subservient because this world is a merciless world that will take good people for granted and cannot respect them . That is why mild aggression is a desired quality. Strictly speaking, higher education should broaden vision and outlook but much depends on upbringing. Herein enters the proper sense of values, which unfortunately people lose sight of, in this fast moving commercial world. I feel that we can never change others, but will only have to do what it takes to improve ourselves and maintain our balance and peace of mind. Coming back to the question higher education does train and make a person think clearly and listen to reason[most of the time;-bigoted persons can never be changed] It helps the person analyse various aspects of an issue and come to a conclusion.So, a well educated person with a higher qualification is better than a less educated person, provided he is a good human being-we assume that education trains us to be good human beings.

I don't think it makes you a better person or detrmines the degree of success in work. You can be an outstanding person without formal education - highly intelligent, or creative or compassionate any number of great attributes. Plenty of college grads are working in the food industry and plenty of high school drop out have good jobs and make a good salary. Their are examples of wealthy entrepreneurs through out history who never graduated highschool - sometimes junior high. And its true, you can be self educated and be smarter then a college student because you can be well educated - but only taught to learn rote - to memorize, get tested then forget. Its a gray area, and really is determined by the individual. Joshua - you have chosen an excellent, thought provoking discussion. :)

A 17th century French philosopher named Montagne is famous for having pointed out that a person can be highly educated without having good manners or a high moral compass. So while an education is useful in many ways, it is not proof that a person is of high character, nor are people who were not fortunate enough to gotten a good formal education therefore likely to have low character. My experience, however, has proven that there are a few distinct advantages to having had a formal and highly structured education. The first and most important advantage, I think, is that we can draw somewhat more easily on the experience of other people who have endured various kinds of hardship, so that when faced with adversity in our own lives, we can sail right over it. For example, knowing that not only hundreds, but thousands of people have overcome great obstacles and yet gone on to make wonderful contributions to society makes me see the triviality of my own predicaments. Secondly, a formal education sharpens one's ability to reason logically and to objectively evaluate life's options, and to be in the habit of doing so expeditiously. This gives us the freedom to live more autonomously, with less likelihood of being manipulated, tricked, or used by others. Finally, although most people I know from all walks of life would quickly chose honor over wealth, and good health over fame, and happiness over material goods, there is little question that having many skills and much intellectual experience pretty much insures freedom from want. Freedom from want, in turn, allows a person more leisure time in which to help others, take a moral stance, invent something to benefit humanity, paint a picture, write a poem...and the list goes on. Montagne also said "It is necessary to give to others in order to gain for one's self." Some people know this intuitively. Others might read about this concept in a college textbook and say, "Wow, here are some good thoughts that might help me live better!" It is certainly true that many self-educated or even uneducated people are very giving, but I do think that a proper formal education puts one in a position to be generous with less personal sacrifice.

A higher education can help someone think and act better but it is not always like that. Because there are other factors that will also determine whether somoene is going to be a better person or not. Those factors are their upbringing, cultures, and characters. You can't change someone overnight. Characters, for instance can't be changed at all. It is already intact into someone's personality. Also, you can't change someone who has lived in a certain culture to follow other tradition unless he has his own awareness to change it. Upbringing can also play an important role in developing someone's personality.

In some ways yes but not at all times. I think it is not education that propel a person to elevate himself into a higher pedestal than his companions. It is in fact the credentials that he amassed for himself. I believe that education should have lead us to great understanding of life, meaning it should open our minds for others and to become better people not just for ourselves but also for our fellow human beings. But I think there is a big failure on our educational system to mold people into the right direction. Instead, education has become a two-edged swords that could also destroy and not just build. Sad to say, that we have already the most magnificent development in all areas of human endeavors. Unfortunately, man is never equipped by himself to have the necessary moral ground in the present world. Education has its own success and also failure.

The first thing is that what is a better education you called and the second is what is a better person. A better education in my view is that a student can contributed to his country with his knowledge and he is also a kind person. A better person is a kind person, although he has lots of faults. There is no one who has no faults at all. There are lots of people with lots of knowledge who don't help others at all. they are not better persons in my view.

no i don't the reason i say this is because my husband is a wonderful person and will help anyone in need and yet he can't read above a third grade level even though he is a high school grad and a grad of lsu for firefighting he still couldn't read because he had a great memory and memorized everything someone else read to him noone ever cared enough about him to even realized it coming from a broken home and an abusive father he is a wonderful husband and father to our four kids he is also a very hard worker so know i don't think the education makes a person better its that persons attitude and personality

I think the assessment of a person outstanding, and his level of education are not directly related to the extent, of course, higher education teach people something rewarding than most people, but this does not represent their superior than others.

for me,better education really makes a better person. however, it should not be a basis to be superior to others, but instead it should and must be an avenue to help others, not lording it over but to be humble in dealing with everynone else. education does make us better, but attitudes really counts. let us focus then on our attitude for it is the real basis to make a person better.

I don't think so. Education is just to make a person grow mentally. You can't change a person for who he is only experience. That is my point of view.

I believe that education does make one's mind open to new ideas and helps a person better understand the world. However A highly educated person does not neccessarily be a better person cause a better person is the large-hearted one and goodness of heart is an inheritent trait which no amount of education can bring about.

To me education can be a piece of paper with a lot of facts stored in the brain. I don't care what degrees people have, none of it is worth a thing if they don't have common sense and common sense is something they don't teach in any school or University. As far as work places are concerned I think a lot of people these days get on by knowing the right people or by stepping on other people. This happens quite often particularly in Government departments.

That depends, some people who have an education have a "high and mighty" attitude. I am not saying not to get an education, I am just saying, "Don't let it get to your head."

yes

I agree with other one, "A highly educated person doesn't mean a well educated person." There are lots of people who are highly educated but doesn't use their knowledge for the good.. Yes at work, a high education matters but a person's character and attitude towards work and peers also matters equally.. honesty, kindness, attitude, integrity, resourcefulness, initiative are also some qualities that are most important at work and in life in general.. one may be less educated because of life's circumstances but it doesn't make him an inferior being.. as long as a person's moral values is upright, i believe i will admire him more than i will admire a person with a higher educational attainment but with a questionnable character.. Sometimes and maybe even most of the times, a person learns his values as he experience life and not only because of his education.. yes a good education can help a person become better but it is a person's values that determine his character..and i think his character is most important.

Logicly for the previous century,before 2000 is yes, but today the better education is not the ticket to be abetter person.Because the one who has a better education today sometimes doesn'y give an appreciate to the unbetter education person! I'm also dont know why.Maybe the ends of the world is so closed!

A man of knowledge can survive anywhere in the world. It does not necessary make him a better person. Sometimes when we have a lot of knowledge, it can go to our head and lead to pride and arrogance. Together with worldly knowledge, we also need spiritual knowledge to remain humble and level-headed.