Experience has proven that the best-educated people are often those who are known as "self-made" or seld-educated. It takes more than a university degree to make one a person of education. Any person who is educated has leaned to get whatever they want in life without violating the rights of others. Education consist of not so much of knowledge, but knowledge effectively and persistently applied. People are paid not merely for what they know, but more particularly for what they do with what they know..... Napoleon Hill. Excerpts from Your Magic Power To Be Rich.
Sometimes, you don't need a five-page script to help you grasp a point. I read the above this morning from the book, Your Magic Power To Be Rich by Napoleon Hill, and ever since then, I have been thinking. I have been thinking about everything I think have learnt or I know. To some extent, I might say, I am uneducated because I have not been applying most of what I know.
For instance, read this line again, then use it to evaluate yourself;
Any person who is educated has leaned to get whatever they want in life without violating the rights of others.
Do you think you can be called educated? What makes you think you should be classified as educated? Until you can finally realize university degree has got nothing to do with your level of education, then you are far from being educated.
How well have you been applying what you know? How well have you been training yourself in the line of self-developement? I personally believe this is all that matters.
Don't tell me what you know, just let me see what you know.
This is short and precise, but I hope it does open your eyes to so many truth like it did to mine.
Reference: Your Magic Power To Be Rich by Napoleon Hill.
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I completely agree and understand what you have meant by being educated. That’s how our education system is. Schools teach us many things which we don’t even apply anywhere. Such learnings have no relevance to the education one should have. I don’t say primary education is not required. Of course, it’s important but to keep oneself open to the learnings apart from that is a must. Afterall that's what helps in dealing with real-life situations.
I would want you to read one of the most fabulous books which I recommend to almost everyone I come across with a zeal to understand why one’s life is the way it is. Do read Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki, and you will know what I am talking.
An education with little or no application means nothing. It's better to be called uneducated then.
I have read it. It's awesome. I'll also recommend you read the law of success by Napoleon Hill.
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That's wonderful.
I will go through your recommendation and will share my thoughts about it definitely with you.
I'll be glad if you do so.
I'm already in love with one of his quotes in the book you have recommended which goes like this -
Yeah! He is one of my most respected author. Reading his books have changed my life a lot.
I know but haven't read his work so much. I hope to learn something great out of it. Let's roll. :)
By the way, have you read The Magic of Thinking Big by David J. Schwartz?
First of all thinking this post is valuable is an understatement... The post is educative if you know what I mean..... The fact that I know what being educated is now makes me close to being educated
I really don't tag into that fact that if I have a degree I am educated..... Tho I have a degree but there is more to life than having a degree even if degree is a plus
Thanks for this wonderful and educational information my boss
Thank you @mittymartz. I'm glad you have learnt from it.
Exactly ma'am. A lot of people thinks that the word I am educated only comes to play when your done with university which is so not true.
And by the way, who is that lady up there.. Is that you? 😍😍
That's cee-c.
short and precise like you said,
we all just pass through the university to prove that we are capable of learning,development,adapting,self-reliance which most people dont realise.
thank you for this post because somehow i feel motivated.
life is not how the book says it will be.
That particular quote has got me thinking for over an hour.
it still got me thinking.
i would definitely visit the bookstore to pick up that book.
This is food for thought. Indeed our educational level does not determine our level of intelligence. Most successful people today have no college degree.
Thanks for sharing @ogoowinner
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I think the appropriate phrase should be,
Education is beyond attending a school.
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Oh, yeah. That's a more precise way to put it
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superb writeup, valid points given.
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Very profound.
Thanks for this great post @ogoowinner. I really concur to all you have said, it's all about self development, and that's what many people still find difficult to understand. You certificate can only show that you actually graduated from a certain institution but the same certificate cannot be productive until you start inputting all you have learnt into a productive exercise. One only become educated when he/her is able to input whatever that has been learnt into productive means without violating the right of others.
Thanks.
life gives all the lessons education only gives text lessons but life gives experiences which remain forever
Thx for share... I shall find way of getting one of his book.. this is really true, compiling those papers which we called certificate doesn't make you educated.. our works or results will tell the if really we are educated.. thx for share.