Do You Have What It Takes? A Breakdown Of The Educated Person

I can picture being in Thomas Jones place and listening to a student wondering what the speaker is saying, their interest is not listening to the speakers, but walking the stage and the end commencement. As Thomas Jones pointed out; why did we not discuss the educated person question prior to commencement? We do need to answer the question: “What is an educated person?” (Jones)

Armed With Education by Neil List demonstrates a message of letting knowledge and strategic linguistics become the most powerful weapon. List quotes Friedrich Neitzschets statement “In every culture, whoever cannot handle weapons is a slave, and weapons include words”. Nietzschets words represent how compelling statements can manipulate minds and effectively gain power through forming dominant concepts. Using words comparable to weapons requires training just as any physical weapon would. A well-trained word warrior will develop a knowledgable understanding of how to use their talent to an advantage. interactions between word warriors and the uneducated is a losing battle for the hopeless fool againgst and eloquent tongue. List supports this

Many people in their times have wondered: is it worth going to college? Do I really need to go to college? The answer to these questions is covered in these three articles: “Blue Collar Brilliance” by Mike Rose, “College the Easy Way” by Bob Herbert and “Is College Worth it” by the economist.

Choices can make or break us depending on what we do. That is what Jon Spayde attempts to convey to his audience in his 1998 Unte Reader article, “What Does it Mean to Be Educated?” He goes through many examples and arguments that could possible answer this “surprisingly tricky and two-sided question” (Spayde paragraph 1). Although the actual arguments he poses throughout his article, he uses the rhetorical devices – ethos, pathos and logos, to get his readers to accept his purpose.

| B. the ability to express viewpoints other than their own and to think critically

Is College for Everyone. A College degree is the key to live a successful life, but the underlying question that has people contemplating, is college for everyone? “Is College Worth it...”, written by David Leonhardt, argues with statistics the college is in fact a smart financial investment. Furthermore, Leonhardt also explains how a four-year degree is more valuable than a highschool degree and how noticable the pay gaps are between a college degree and a highschool degree.

Disdain for the educated is born from a feeling of inferiority. Jealousy for the accomplishments and wealth of others results in a divide between social classes, and instead of striving to improve their own standing, they blame others for their lack of success. Beatty expresses his distrust of the educated when he tells Montag, “Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? Me? I won 't stomach them for a minute. And so when houses were finally fireproofed completely, all over the world there was no longer need of firemen for the old purposes. They were given the new job, as custodians of our peace of mind, the focus of our understandable and rightful dread of being inferior: official censors, judges and executors. That 's you, Montag, and

Rational thinking (deductive and inductive reasoning), Active listening, Persuasion, Critical thinking, Analytic thinking, Social perceptiveness, Ethics and integrity, Human anatomy, Human

In the light of above it become more complex to define the contextual meaning of “Well educated”

Education is important to be able to make informed decisions, draw conclusions from stimuli around you, and make responsible choices for not just you but the people your choices will affect. Being educated on certain topics such as the world around you will make your life easier to navigate and persuade people to agree with you. Human nature is to look up to and follow your superiors, or in this case the educated people that you admire to show you the right and wrong way to think or do something. Those people we look up to are people like: Doctors, professors, scientists, parents, media people and more. All of who we trust because they are more educated on a certain topic. Being an educated person will also do you well in the workforce which ties into being a productive citizens which are both responsibilities we possess as

The article “A College Degree Isn’t Enough” by Kiplinger Knight, December 1, 2013 is a persuasive article because the author believes a college degree isn’t enough to land a job. Others may think otherwise. The author has this point of view due to the fact increasing number of employers have grown skeptical of degrees and other traditional credentials. Companies didn’t care much about a college degree or any achievement for that matter. Therefore, began a trend toward employer testing, which is fueled by a backlash against the high cost of four-year colleges and mounting student debt. Universities have been just too much money. A similar attitude is driving the trend toward condensed, tailored education, such as vocational training or an associate's degree from a community college. The way the author argues is informative and clear but the position he takes is disagreeable.

The two demographics deal with a person’s level of education and their age because the younger a person is the less likely they are to vote which could be because of their lower education level on the subject.

Scott Adams is comic strip creator, who lives in California. He graduated from Hartwick College in Oneonta, N.Y. His article “How to get a real education” is proposed that we shouldn’t waste time teaching average “B” students things like chemistry, physics, etc; instead, we should teach them something more useful, like entrepreneurship. Then he goes on and talks about the experience he got when he work at the Coffee Shop and manage the school dome.

I already know about inference is gather information, evidence to make a conclusion. And what you see or what you hear about the fact or opinion from someone. For example when you read a book or any magazine you can make inferences. Also critical thinking when you think deeply about something in order to judge or evaluating the writer’s book or any paragraph. In order analyzing answering any questions and understanding what is the author message to find out something statics.

During the 2016 presidential race, an Independent Senator from Vermont arose to the occasion and challenged Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Governor Martin O’Malley for the Democrat nomination. Senator Bernie Sanders introduced plenty of new daring policies. One of those policies was the “It’s Time to Make College Tuition Free and Debt Free”, which immediately drew in most of the millennials attention.