Well-educated?
By laurika
@laurika (4532)
United States
March 20, 2008 8:55pm CST
I am just thinking when we see some quiz show on tv and there is a question we know and the person on the other site doesn't, the question is easy for us and we will be probably wondering if the person is not educated or what 's the problem with him/her. I think we all feel like when we know something it is easy for us, but something we don't know is hard for us. So now, who will you consider as good educated?
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4 responses
@daeckardt (6237)
• United States
21 Mar 08
I think it really depends on the individual. Some people can be "well-educated" and know nothing while others can know a lot of things from every day life without have any formal education. A lot of people think that you have to have a college degree to get a good job, but some of the smartest people never finished college. A person can know a lot of trivia without going to college (those are the ones who do well on quiz shows) while people who are college graduates may have spent so much time worrying about passing the next test that they didn't learn anything!!! I this the person who has experienced life and can tell others is better educated than someone who has only read about it. Know what I mean???
@laurika (4532)
• United States
23 Mar 08
Yeah I agree with you and of course we cannot judge all the people with the same meters. I also know people who has a college and don't know such a trivial thing like Florida is one of the state in US. But I am wondering if you have someone around you, who you consider as a well-educated?
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@daeckardt (6237)
• United States
24 Mar 08
I think my nephew is well-educated even though he has not attended a lot of school. He has learned about places by going there instead of reading about it and he looks at all sides of an argument before deciding about anything. He can out-maneuver me on most topics even though he is 1/3 my age. I guess it depends on what you mean by education.
@deebomb (15304)
• United States
21 Mar 08
I don't think it all comes down to school education. Being able to answer game show trivia all comes down to interest. I was watching one last night that had question about opera. I don't know any thing about it but another subject was about history and that is something I do know something about, so I could answer some of the questions. A person can have a lot of knowledge in some ares and know nothing about others. There are way too many things out there to know all there is to know about them.
@ElicBxn (63643)
• United States
21 Mar 08
I'm pretty bright, I have a B.S., and there are tons of stuff I don't know. Now, I know quite a bit about the stuff I'm interested in, but there are things about math and languages I don't know. I consider my friends with Ph.D.s in philosophy, but even they have gaps in their knowlege.
@williamjisir (22819)
• China
21 Mar 08
Hello dear laurika. I think that when a person in on TV for a quiz show, it would make him more nervous than we audience who are only watching the quiz show in a relaxed mind and mood because we are enjoying only without having to make ourself highly concentrated on the quiz. So it is ok for them not to always be able to answer a question raised to them. Thanks.
