So lets start with a definition of education so we know what we want to measure.
Merriam-Webster said, "the knowledge and development resulting from an educational process."
The Free Dictionary said, "An instructive or enlightening experience"
Wikipedia may have had what I think is the most thorough definition when it said, "Education in the general sense is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character, or physical ability of an individual. In its technical sense, education is the process by which society deliberately transmits its accumulated knowledge, skills, and values from one generation to another."
So when someone receives an education from the public K-12 system it is a series of formative effects covering a number of topics some of which are formal and some which are informal.
So I ask the question again, how can we effectively measure education? What is the mark of an educated individual?
