Ideal Educated Person

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My ideal of the “educated person” is the individual that is partly knowledgeable in many different areas of study. Also in order to be considered an “educated person” one must be a reader. Reading is the most important step to becoming and being an educated person. I think that virtually any kind of reading keeps ones mind active and going regardless of what it may be. Without the ability or want and desire to read, one cannot attain further knowledge throughout a lifetime. Reading is essentially the capstone of knowledge and learning.
I also strongly believe that the ideally educated person must be a thinking individual, and must be capable of making free decisions based on study, reason and creative thinking, and have reason to back up those free decisions. I also believe that in order to be considered educated, an individual must be curious and capable of and interested in learning; in my thinking that means capable of acquiring and using information and able to draw from a large knowledge foundation. The ideally educated individual appreciates and is able to contribute to creative expression and art. One that does not at least have minimal knowledge in the study of art, I feel cannot be considered “educated.” Art is important to our society because it encompasses our creative skills as human beings.
Also an ideally educated individual should have a sense of worth, always in pursuit of excellence and should be able to achieve pleasure through academic and physical achievement. In respect to physical achievement, a person should strive to be healthy; aware of how they feel before venturing out to discover knowledge. A person must be true to themselves, before they can adequately be considered an educated person. In other words a person must have a sense of body and health knowledge, as well as self-knowledge.
In my view an ideally educated individual must have good interpersonal and language skills. ...