It also marked the moment when maths began to slip away from being part of the armamentarium of any educated person and towards the dizzyingly abstruse field it has become today.

ECONOMIST: Beno?t Mandelbrot

Mr Lenon said extra-curricular activities - be they sporting or otherwise - were central to the experience of any educated person.

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In the eighteenth century of Benjamin Franklin and the nineteenth century of Thomas Edison, an educated person could feel some familiarity with science and even dabble in it as an amateur.

NPR: Einstein: Relatively Speaking, a Complicated Life

The crisis the global community faces needs to be addressed through the inspirational wisdom of Gandhi, who said that for a person to be truly educated, you had to have a united approach, by training the mind to think, the hands to acquire skills and the heart, for human values and ethics.

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