Englsh 101
What’s Your Definition of Being Well-Educated?
Alejandra Noemi Powell
Personal Narrative Essay 1
English 101
Liberty Online University
Abstract
Alfie Kohn as well as Nel Noddings, a professor emerita at Stanford University, expresses their thoughts on how we as people have a misconception of “Well-educated people”. Many people have different opinions on what they think can categorize people as being well –educated. Based on my readings of “What Does it Mean to be Well-Educated” by Alfie Kohn, on the readings of What the Bible says well-educated person is, and based on my personal experience, I have come up with what I think defines a well educated person. Does being well-educated mean having a lot of knowledge? What is knowledge? What does God Define as having knowledge?
English Essay 1
What’s Your Definition of Being Well-Educated? “Thanks to the internet, which allows writers and researchers to circulate rough drafts of their manuscripts, I’ve come to realize just how many truly brilliant people cannot spell or punctuate.”(Alfie Kohn) Just like Alfie Kohn’s wife I too have discovered that being Well-educated does not mean you have to know how to spell or even do simple math. All My life I have been pressured to get good grades. I was good at literature (poetry) and art but they were not areas that were qualified as important. I have 5 siblings all of which are very smart. That is not to say that I am not smart, I just was never smart in the areas that counted. My Mom graduated from high school when she was only 16 and all of my brothers and sisters before me always had grades above 80s. Even my little brother is a straight A student. Every day kids are pressured in school to get good grades and to obtain knowledge. Is it really knowledge that we are gaining? Can one be brilliant and not know how to do the basic things that most consider to be evidence that a person is Well-educated?
First we must understand the difference between having
Alejandra Noemi Powell
Personal Narrative Essay 1
English 101
Liberty Online University
Abstract
Alfie Kohn as well as Nel Noddings, a professor emerita at Stanford University, expresses their thoughts on how we as people have a misconception of “Well-educated people”. Many people have different opinions on what they think can categorize people as being well –educated. Based on my readings of “What Does it Mean to be Well-Educated” by Alfie Kohn, on the readings of What the Bible says well-educated person is, and based on my personal experience, I have come up with what I think defines a well educated person. Does being well-educated mean having a lot of knowledge? What is knowledge? What does God Define as having knowledge?
English Essay 1
What’s Your Definition of Being Well-Educated? “Thanks to the internet, which allows writers and researchers to circulate rough drafts of their manuscripts, I’ve come to realize just how many truly brilliant people cannot spell or punctuate.”(Alfie Kohn) Just like Alfie Kohn’s wife I too have discovered that being Well-educated does not mean you have to know how to spell or even do simple math. All My life I have been pressured to get good grades. I was good at literature (poetry) and art but they were not areas that were qualified as important. I have 5 siblings all of which are very smart. That is not to say that I am not smart, I just was never smart in the areas that counted. My Mom graduated from high school when she was only 16 and all of my brothers and sisters before me always had grades above 80s. Even my little brother is a straight A student. Every day kids are pressured in school to get good grades and to obtain knowledge. Is it really knowledge that we are gaining? Can one be brilliant and not know how to do the basic things that most consider to be evidence that a person is Well-educated?
First we must understand the difference between having