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The Meaning of Education


Misconception about the word EDUCATE

Dictionaries have not aided in the elimination of this misunderstanding, because they have defined the word educate as an act of imparting knowledge.

The word educate has its roots in the latin word educo, which means to develop from within; to draw out; to grow through the law of use

Nature hates idleness in all its forms. Tie up an arm, or any other portion of the body taking out of use, and the idle part will soon be lifeless. Reverse the order, give an arm more than normal use, such as that engaged in by the blacksmith who wields a heavy hammer all day long, and that arm grows strong.



Organized Knowledge in Action

Power grows out of organized knowledge. But mind you, it grows out of it only through the application of use.

Some of the best educated people the world has known possessed much less general knowledge than some who gave been known as fools.

The difference between the two being that the former put into use what knowledge they possessed while the latter made no such application.

An educated person is one who knows how to acquire everything needed in the attainment of their main purpose in life - without violating the right of others.

By that definition, many knowledgeable individuals come nowhere near qualifying as "Educated".

Similarly it might also be a great surprise to many who believe they suffer from lack of learning to know that they are well educated.

The uses of learning

The successful lawyer is not the one who memorizes most of the principles of law. The successful lawyer is the one who knows where to find a principle of law, which fit the immediate needs of a given case.

In other words, the successful lawyer is the one who knows where to find the law he or she wants when needed.

True education means mind development no merely the gathering and classifying of knowledge

Education, Let us not forget this, consists of the power with which to get everything one needs, when one needs it, without violating the rights of others.

To make the sale there are five different task, all requiring different kinds of knowledge you could work to educate yourself for each of these jobs, or you could create a Master Mind Alliance. 

Who would have been truly responsible for making the sale happen?

You, since you were the one who assembled the team that got the job done.


Henry Ford



In one memorable exchange, Stevenson asked, “Do you know anything about the Revolution, Mr. Ford?”
“Yes, sir,” Ford answered.
“What revolution did you have in mind, Mr. Ford?”
“In 1812,” Ford replied to murmurs of astonishment in the crowded courtroom.
After the trial, the media pronounced its own unequivocal verdict on Ford’s performance. “Mr. Ford has been submitted to a severe examination of his intellectual qualities,” wrote the New York Times. “He has not received a pass.” “The man is a joke,” blasted the New York Post.
There are many people who could easily entangle ford, with a maze of questions, none of which he could answer. But ford could turn right around and wage a battle in finance that would exterminate those same people, with all of their knowledge and wisdom.

Ford could not go into his chemical laboratory and separate water into its component atoms of hydrogen and oxygen and then recombine these atoms in their former order, but he knows how to surround himself with the chemist who can do this for him if he wants it done.

The person who can intelligently use the knowledge possessed by another is as much, or more, a person of education as the on who merely has the knowledge but does not know what to do with it.

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