What it means to be an educated person means something different to everyone. From how they achieve this so called education to how they use it in this world. Many past philosophers have had things to say about what it means to be educated, including Socrates. Widely considered to be the father of modern thought, he once said "the world, it seems to me, is divided into the wise, who know they are fools, and …showed first 75 words of 1460 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1460 total…knowledge that an educated person isn't necessarily an intelligent person and an intelligent person isn't necessarily an educated person. Also we have looked at what the causes of education are and how they can impact single lives to entire countries. To look back at the quote from Socrates, those who think themselves wise because of their education, can be fools, while those who weren't given an education and called fools can be intelligent regular people.