Education means to have knowledge about a wide array of topics, especially ones important to your career. For college students our job is learning and gaining an education for our future. In high school everyone sort of learns just general knowledge that someone somewhere decided it was important for everyone to know. We all learn the same things in high school and the same is for gen eds. in college. We learn general information and start to figure out what exactly we want to do with our lives. After that we start to get a more practical and personalized education. Society as a whole decides what it means to be educated. It dictates what is taught in schools, what employers want in workers, and what people consider education. Education is a complicated thing. There is more than one way to be educated, but in America we seem to only deem a formal education in the classroom as worthy of the education title.