Education is defined as acquiring skills. There are many different ways to be educated and many subjects that can be studied. School is not the only place or setting in which we can learn or get educated. We usually receive information by seeing, touching, and hearing, but itˇ¦s useless unless we think about it. Otto Friedrich states ˇ§Education teaches how to thinkˇ¨. Thinking is a process to filter the information that we receive through our senses and put this information in order. A well-educated person should be able to think, to organize information, to have own thought, and to respond individually; therefore an educated person could educate himself or herself by receiving information. However, education is described as transmitting information and thinking. But, education canˇ¦t be complete with only informationˇ¦s transmittal and without the freedom of thinking.
In our society, people who are well educated are those who graduated from a good school with good grades.......
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