BlakeReading4

I agree with the first reading that education should be claimed and not received. You can't just be spoon-fed and education along with everyone else; you have to put work into your education to get the most out of it. It is a students responsibility to try their hardest so that they can learn to the fullest of their potential. I also agree that we seem to live in a mans world even to this day. There has yet to be a women president and most higher end jobs like principals, superintendents, and college deans seem too be positions held mostly by males. I was in group 3 so I read the article on what it means to be educated and watched the video on Howard Gardner. I found this article very interesting and agree that it is difficult to define what being well educated really means. How do you draw a concrete line between non educated and well educated? The authors wife was a surgeon, who in many peoples eyes is viewed to be extremely smart. However, her math and English skills are not very high, but does that make her not well educated? I find it interesting how society has so many stereotypes about intelligence based on a persons job and not all of their actual knowledge. I agree with the video that there are many different types of intelligence. A person can not be defined simply by smart or dumb; there are many different factors that come into play. While a person may not be particularly smart in one area such as math, they could excel in other areas such as music, science, or literature.