What does it mean to be educated?
Yesterday, in my 3 classes of Advanced Placement Government students, I asked them that question. And so began one of the more interesting class periods they, or I, have experienced.
It is an open-ended question. It is one for which I am not about to give them an answer, but rather work with what they say. It is one for which their answers will vary as much as their experiences have varied, as much as their hopes are varied, as much as they differ from one another.
It is an example of a "big" question, one asked not for the purposes of preparing fo
