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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megalomaniac" data-source="post: 2710588" data-attributes="member: 214056">To be 'educated' you need knowledge and understanding in depth and breadth.  It's not enough to just know things but you have to be able to understand what it is you know.  It's not enough to just focus on one area of knowledge (specialization) because you have to have some kind of context (breadth of understanding) to fit it into to have real insight.   That's the difference between being highly trained and being educated.  A highly trained person might have a great deal of technical expertise in a given area but without depth and breadth of understanding (i.e. education) then it is not as valuable (well, valuable in the sense of being able to achieve things but less valuable in the sense of being 'educated', i.e. being able to grasp the proverbial 'bigger picture').</blockquote>