What does it mean to educate? The Webster's New American Dictionary defines the word educate as "to provide with schooling; to develop mentally and morally; to provide with information, train, discipline, school, instruct, teach." The Oxford English Dictionary defines education as "The systematic instruction, schooling or
             training given to the young in preparation for the work of life; by extension, similar instruction or training obtained in adult age. Also,the whole course of scholastic instruction which a person has received. Often with limiting words denoting the nature of the predominant subject of the instruction or kind of life it prepares, as classical,
             legal, medical, technical, commercial, art education." Both of these are basically saying the same thing, education is instruction you give to an individual pertaining to life.
             Who exactly is an educated person? Only those who hold college degrees? Those who have made some significant contribution to the arts or the sciences? The world looks at an education as only related to scholastic and academic achievement. The truth is, a person may be very educated with not even a high school diploma. Education is different for every person. A doctor might be education only through obtaining a degree. A native of the Amazon might be educated through knowledge of farming methods and techniques. Is one smarter than the other? The doctor would probably refer to the Indian as uneducated because he doesn't know how to solve a complicated calculus problem. The Indian would think the doctor uneducated because he wouldn't be able to survive in the wilderness. There really cannot be one standard for education. What is education to one person might not be education to another, and one persons education may not be relevant to another's life. The question arises as to how much education one individual needs, and can tha
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