Education is popularly supposed to mean getting a degree and qualifying oneself for a white-collar job. The longer the catalogue of degrees after the name of a man, the more educated he is believed to be. This is a narrow and wrong conception of education. True education consists not merely in attending schools and colleges and passing examinations, but in the complete development of one's personality, intellectual, moral, and physical. Education in this sense is a life-long process, and cannot be said to be completed at any stage of life. An educated person is well-informed. While he should have thorough and precise knowledge of the subject in which he has specialized, he should be aware of the broad developments in other subjects. It is not suggested that he is a walking dictionary or encyclopedia, for as important as the possession of information or knowledge of facts is the ability to interpret them and make use of them. He has the habit of reading newspapers, periodica...
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