Title: 10 Characteristics of an Educated Person

Kicker: Education can help you learn about your eternal nature, discover truth and self-discipline,
and become who God wants you to be.
Synopsis:
Personal questions can help us evaluate our educational progress: Where am I now? What do I
need to do better? What do I need to learn in order to be more effective? Whom do I want to
become?
Speaking at BYU in 1980, Elder Hugh W. Pinnock (19342000), then serving as a member of the
First Quorum of the Seventy, suggested these questions and explained that education is a key to
becoming truly free.
Both men and women are to have the same broad range of educational, social, vocational, and
spiritual opportunities . . . , he says. We should make these choices in a gospel perspective,
remembering our eventual, eternal destiny.
Although gaining an education requires dedication and effort, we are rewarded by discovering truth
and self-discipline. The virtue of all education is victory over oneself, he says.
By earning an education, we learn more about our eternal nature and are better able to help those
around us. We are to build, influence, lead, teach, and help each other.
According to Elder Pinnock, educated people tend to
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know that the foundation of all true learning is spiritual knowledge

acquire, remember, and apply information
be persistent
be tolerant and inclusive
recognize the importance of here and now
be environmentally consciousness
respect facts and truth
use knowledge responsibly and productively
appreciate the arts and extraordinary efforts
attain deep integrity and Christlike morality

Read Hugh W. Pinnocks full address, Ten Characteristics of an Educated Person.

[http://speeches.byu.edu/?act=viewitem&id=518]
Source: BYU Speeches
Possible picture:

Picture of Hugh W. Pinnock from lds.org

https://www.lds.org/ensign/1977/11/news-of-the-church/elder-hugh-w-pinnock-ofthe-first-quorum-of-the-seventy?lang=eng

Katie Hollingsworth, Mormon Insights