N EDUCATED MAN is not an emaciated, absent-minded, queer-looking fellow with horn spectacles and a billard dome, wearing a key, and sitting in an ivory tower. One can not gauge the educational status of a man by gold stripes, academic heraldry, degrees, merit badges, canasta score, encyclopedic knowledge, good grooming, weight in diamonds, or elevation to a Brain Trust. An educated man, however, can be recognized. He has been recognized in many times and climes. The Mayan civilization had developed a high social order by 317 A.D. The Eskimo attained competency in his native Arctic. Robinson Crusoe survived on nature and initiative. Ganglin', awkward Lincoln wrote on a fire shovel with charcoal. Selfeducated Edison changed the homes and industries of the world. Sergeant Alvin York, with a third-grade education, himself established a high school in his native mountains. Arthur Morgan, who never went to college, was president of Antioch College for years, and was a leader in community economics. Edward Bellamy rebelled against the makebelieve and mediocrity of his age. James West, an orphan and physically handicapped, became the first Chief Scout Executive. George Washington Carver, born a slave, made 300 useful products from the lowly peanut in his research laboratory. Thor Heyerdahl on a raft proved that Polynesia was almost certainly settled from Peru. Many nameless ones are also truly educated. They are the members of United Nations sincerely working for world peace; the Dutch preparing the Netherlands East Indies for self-government; Youth Hostelers of all races and creeds playing, singing, and taking pot-luck suppers together; onlookers applauding honest efforts of all nations' participants in Olympic Games; Ranger Naturalists in National Parks interpreting mountains and glaciers in simple English; high school students requesting extra courses in remedial English, children voluntarily going to the neighborhood museum to care for live animals or to study the customs of peoples in far-off lands.