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The responsibilities of an educated person in a democratic society

The responsibilities of an educated person in a democratic society

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 ...