What is an educated man? Available to Purchase

An amusing parlour game is to ask a few friends to write down in not more than five minutes their definition of an educated man. The definition generally turns out to be a self‐portrait of the writer; for we all like to think of ourselves as “educated, however much our views on what constitutes such a person may vary. Another question — what is education for? — produces even wider‐ranging views, some of which have precious little in common with others. No wonder educationists and philosophers give different answers when stating their aims of education; they are stating their personal view of man and his place in society. Plato had one view, Rousseau another and, say, Bertrand Russell of our day yet another. We each carry about with us our personal scale of values.