What’s the difference between being learned and being educated
August 13, 2010 by admin
Filed under Career Planning
Neither outweighs the other always, each has advantage in different circumstance.
Being educated is exactly what it says – you have been through a full and effective education programme and taken advantage of this. It generally implies a capability to absorb and understand new information, and a good understanding at least at a basic level of the areas covered, which are usually quite wide at the beginning, and a more detailed understand of some areas that were covered later. It would generally be taken as this sort of “funnel” grom basic general knowledge to specific detail in specialist areas.
“Being learned” is more complex to explain – and it’s a term that is less used these days. Historically it was used of a polymath or “rennaisance man” – one who had a high level of knowledge across a wide range of fields, and this is probbaly how most would interprt it these days – it’s also often less apreciated in these days when we seem to focus more on specialism.
Generally a learned person suggests someone with high capability of discovering new things in new fields, someone who really goes out to find new things to learn, whereas educated is perhaps more narrow and and more expecting of a “provided route” to knowledge.
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