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I think the principle responsibility of an educated person is to educate others. People can be educated in many different ways. A person can receive what we call a “formal” education, they could only go to elementary school, or continue all the way through college. A person who earns a college degree is not better than one who doesn’t continue past the fourth grade, but most would agree there are significant differences between the two levels. We learn and become educated in many other ways outside of a formal education and that type of learning is just as useful and important in everyday life.

I think no matter what kind of education someone receives, whether someone learns all there is to know about the depression era or they learn to farm the family land, they should use their education to positively impact the world and share their knowledge with those around them. If someone is educated, but keeps it to themselves and neither utilizes their knowledge or passes it on to others, it is useless. I can go through school to become a doctor, but if I never see a patient for as long as I live, it serves no purpose. An education does not just consist of the things we memorize in school about geometric shapes and photosynthesis, though that is an important part. The education we receive through school, our upbringing, and our surroundings is unique to us and is meant to serve each individual in a different way; and is meant to allow us to serve others in our own way as well.