What education means Today

Posted on July 3, 2011
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Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be called “educated”. I know that if you’ve completed elementary, high school, and college, you’re educated. But is that really the case?

I couldn’t help but think that if being educated means that you know about the general things that they taught you at school then how come I can’t recall most of them?

I realize the reason why everything I was taught in school was barely retained in my mind is because I wasn’t really learning them because I wanted to. I was learning them because I needed to pass the required grade and to move on. There was no true value or appreciation placed in knowing what I was being taught.

Because of this, the things that I’ve  ”learned” because I had to pass were all forgotten. They were only stored temporarily. And now I find that I regret that I have.

The mindset of today’s youth shouldn’t be superimposed with the same notion; that is to learn just to pass. It would bode for a better future if it were otherwise.

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