Going to school and getting a college degree is a form of being educated, but in my opinion it doesn't consider a person truly educated. In order for one to be truly educated, you need to look outside the boundaries of that degree and look at the other side of it. I feel there are two types of education, book education and life education. Book education, is of course, a form of being educated through school, but learning about life and the aspects of it, is that the more you know about life and the experiences you have will make you a more educated person. .
Through out life you are constantly learning and being educated. You experience things sometimes and don't even know you are being educated, whether it be a good experience or a bad experience, the end result is you learning something. Getting an education is not just being taught by another person, it is teaching yourself. You have the ability to learn, and you decide what you want to educate yourself about. I think that the most important person anyone learns from is themselves. You let yourself listen and see, so if you are listening or watching another person, or anything in general, you learn. Watching the news on television is a source if learning. You decide whether or not you want to educate yourself on what's going on in the world, and if you do you educate yourself. You don't have to have someone physically in front of you to teach you. .
There are so many different people that teach you, whether it be teaching directly, like a school teacher or indirectly, learning by watching someone else. In the end you are more educated than before. Watching others is a big part of what type of person someone will become starting at a young age. In the short story School Vs. Education, written by Russell Baker, he states, "from watching his parents, the child, in many cases, will already know how to smoke, how much soda to mix with whisky, what kind of language to use when angry, and how to violate speed laws without being caught.
