Link Love: Harvard University on Skills That Make an Educated Person

Here’s Harvard University’s list of skills that make an “educated person”:

The ability to define problems without a guide.
The ability to ask hard questions which challenge prevailing assumptions.
The ability to quickly assimilate needed data from masses of irrelevant information.
The ability to work in teams without guidance.
The ability to work absolutely alone.
The ability to persuade others that your course is the right one.
The ability to conceptualize and reorganize information into new patterns.
The ability to discuss ideas with an eye toward application.
The ability to think inductively, deductively and dialectically.
The ability to attack problems heuristically.

This is why I homeschool.

http://joshkaufman.net/what-must-an-educated-person-know/