Is there a difference between being a thinking person and an educated one?

[coloradodem2005]

In a thread earlier about education and voting tendancies, I would like to ask, what is the difference between an educated person and a thinking person?

[liontamer]

1. an educated person can choose not to think

or not be smart enough to really think for his or her self. While a thinking person may not want a formal education, or have proper access to one. Neither of these is mutually exclusive but nor do these labels indicate the morality of the person.

[Lavender Brown]

2. I know some people who are well-versed in many subjects

and know a lot of facts, but are pretty shallow when it comes to original thoughts of their own.

[Jade Fox]

3. Absolutely. The ability to think critically....

seems to operate separately from education. And some of the stupidest
people I've known have been highly educated. (George Bush ring a bell?) :)

Sometimes excessive time spent school mostly teaches you how to work the
education system.

[coloradodem2005]

6. George Bush is a bad example though.

Mainly because he used connections and therefore got away with things that any ordinary average guy would never gotten away with. Though, there are a lot of people like that out there. So maybe it is not such a bad example. :)

[sui generis]

4. no one who is truly educated will ever say they are done being educated.

[Worst Username Ever]

5. Education influences the way you think.

I'd also say that college helps one to think a little more critically about issues. I know I wouldn't approach things with the skepticism I do if it hadn't been for school.

[Blue-Jay]

7. No.

"Thinking" influences the way you allow yourself to be educated.

Example: I could get an education at Bob Jones U., but that hardly involves "thinking".

[Worst Username Ever]

8. I believe that your education at Bob Jones U would indeed

influence the way you think about things, just like any life experience will. We'll have to agree to disagree.

[Blue-Jay]

9. That's fine.

Disagreeing about semantics is something that I have no problem with. We probably agree on more, brah.