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Educated People
What are the criteria of being considered an educated person? Educated people, sometimes referred to as intellectuals, have characteristics not usually found in uneducated people. ...
Some defining characteristics of an educated person are curiosity which allows probing and questioning; research savvy which allows for utilization of resources to gather facts and evidence to support an opinion; open mindedness enabling the evaluation of facts from multiple viewpoints; the ability to analyze and differentiate so that one’s own conclusion can be drawn; and the ability to superimpose value and moral criteria on top of facts and evidence.
When Jerome Bruner wrote, “You cannot tell an educated man by whether he believes in God or in flying saucers, but you can tell an educated man by how he takes hold of the question of whether God exists or flying saucers come from Mars,” he exemplified the characteristics defined above.
Approximate Word count = 593
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