Some people believe that getting regularly and rightly informed is nothing short of being educated. Some others feel that being informed is one thing and being rightly educated is just another.

· Which view do you endorse and state why?

Being educated, what it actually is? And being rightly informed, what does it make one? Of course there are differing views. In my opinion, being educated is much more and greater than being rightly informed. Being informed is part of being educated.

This view can be substantiated by citing an example. Let us take the case of student who has done some 10 years of schooling and a few more years of college life. He or she can be called an educated person. Depending on the quality of education he or she has received and the discipline that comes there of, the candidate may stand well apart from someone who has got enough and regular information on things of his or her interest. In short, being educated is a holistic personality development process involving innumerable things like, school, teachers, curricular, extra curricular activities, periodic evaluation, certification, and the list goes on and on.

When I look at the other proposition that being informed is nothing short of being educated, what I find is that it is much short of being educated. This can be proved by looking at the way one collects information. Today, information is in the air, and one finds it virtually impossible to segregate what information is needed and what is not. Therefore, being informed randomly is like accumulating matters on a haphazard manner. There is hardly any system or propriety in the process. Being educated has all these, but being informed does not.

Looking at both the views, I would like to conclude that information and its collecting is just part of education. But education as such has countless other factors that make it a unique experience for every one who gets educated.

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