In My Opinion By: Brian J. T. Watts Being schooled and being educated are two very different things and one is clearly superior. Let me be perfectly clear, when I speak of being schooled, I am not referring to the urban terminology where a person learns a lesson by being embarrassed. (“He schooled you on the basketball court!”). Every student of an institution is schooled. Attending classes, regurgitating a percentage of the information and matriculating are all it takes to be schooled. Being educated has many requirements. First, to truly be educated a student must allow the information being taught to become more than just a simple memory, it must be used and, in some cases, tested. Imagine you want to learn to swim, so you take classes online. You listen to and watch the teacher. You have perfected every stroke, but you have 9
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been doing it from your seat at your desk. You have never entered the water. Have you been schooled or educated on swimming? In addition, education requires
application. While it is fine for a student to know 7 times 7 equals 49, it is much more important for that student to be able to apply this knowledge when purchasing 7 items that cost $7. A simple recitation of the multiplication table will not suffice when “real life” situations occur. Finally, education should cause a person to compartmentalize the information, assess its worth and use it to solve problems. When a person learns karate, they learn many stances. These stances are positions that must be mastered to be successful in achieving higher levels and correctly executing defense and offense when engaged in a fight. All of the karate masters you have seen have broken down what they have learned, prioritized the stances and put
