• What does it mean to be "educated" in today's world?

Every society educates its young as per its philosophy of life, its aspirations, needs and goals in view. Hence, education across societies and ages has undergone radical changes in its objectives and its content.
With rapid changes in society, there have been increasing demands on education and changes had to be made in its structure, transaction strategies, assessment and expectations of the society from the one’s educated. While all this changed, the perception, in an overall sense of an "Educated" person did not change much. It evolved to meet the growing needs of the times.

Being educated in any age would mean: being literate; having gone through the mill of schools etc and been certified; being capable of discriminating between right and wrong, good and evil; being creative & socially efficient; being able to communicate, empathise, contribute to social development; being capable of solving problems and taking decisions; being able to self-actualise.

We live in turbulent times. The pace of change has swept us off our feet and the explosion of knowledge, the stiffness of competition, the desire to acquire more of everything; the social demands upon individuals have made it imperative that the "Educated" person today is capable of dealing with all this with perseverance and equanimity. He has urgent need to manage his ‘Time and Resources’. He needs to understand and manage change. He has to have a vision and an understanding of Life and its purpose. He has to be a man of action and a man at peace with himself and the world. He should have a secular, humanitarian and global outlook. He should be free from prejudice and biases. He has to be pragmatic and utilitarian. He has to have Faith in God. His education ought to have taught him that ‘Character’ is ‘Destiny’.

With Love from one not so Educated.”