What Does it Mean to be Educated?

There is no single correct explanation for what it means to be educated. Personally, I believe that a person should be considered “educated” based upon their success in the primary aspect of their life, whether that be school, work, mothering, etc. For example, an educated person could be someone that has a college degree, but what about someone who joins the military after high school instead of going to college? Does that make them uneducated? Or how about someone who becomes pregnant and drops out of high school, but is an excellent mother? Is someone less educated that receives a college degree from an American university than someone who receives one from a university in Europe? Does schooling always trump personal experience? There are millions of questions similar to those above that we could ask, but any answer that we come up with could be debated. To be educated is more a matter of how well we use what we do know.