Quotes

“An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.”
–Anatole France

I like this quote a lot. As someone who has a graduate degree, I can say firsthand that a Ph.D. or an M.D. does not mean that you are educated. Some of the most educated people I have met did not graduate high school!

I do like to think that I can more easily admit when I do not know something now. I am not sure if this is a result of education, or just a result of age. Of course, one could argue that we become more educated as we age due to life’s experiences!

What do you think? Is there a correlation between living life and education? Or should education be considered in the more traditional sense when thinking of this quote?

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