BUS 374 - Everyone is ignorant - only on different subjects

 Eliot Butler’s humble approach on this topic is really impressive. He attempted to describe an educated person. His simple definition is that “an educated person is one who by his or her initiative and discipline is consciously, vigorously and continuous learning.”

I agree with him that humility is the key quality of a truly educated person. Eliot Butler’s life is characterized as a humble person who served with discipline in the army – discipline and humility become the tools needed to the path of wisdom.

He states:  “The expansion of one’s awareness of his ignorance as he learns is a guarantee that the educated person is kept humble about knowledge and understanding.”

So, the more we toot our own horn and brag, the less educated we really are, thus it is little wonder that his definition of an educated person includes the point that discipline causes the learning. To get wisdom, one needs to develop the desire for discipline which in return leads to true education and develop trust in God.

He continued and stated that “to be an educated person does not carry a set of comfortable guarantees – it will neither cure acne nor remove unwanted weight. It does not promise to remove all ambiguities for life. But the educated person will have increased capacity for living amidst some ambiguity, without losing faith in God or man”

For us to become and stay truly educated we don't have to know every complicated word in the world or be strong to win all the battles of life, but knowledge from different subjects. And always have the burning desire to learn more.

Yes, we all are ignorant in some aspect – whether that be in swimming, fishing, playing soccer, cooking, writing, calculating, or speaking, as long as we strive to continue learning, then we can become educated.

 

 

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