An educated person is the person who has the power to go on and get more education.

The line defines education not as a fixed stock of information or a credential, but as a cultivated capacity for continued growth. “Power to go on” points to habits of inquiry—curiosity, critical reflection, and the ability to learn from experience—rather than mere mastery of a syllabus. In Deweyan terms, the educated person is equipped to adapt intelligently to new problems and changing social conditions, making education a lifelong, self-renewing process. The quote also implicitly critiques schooling that treats learning as completion (graduation) instead of as preparation for ongoing reconstruction of knowledge and character.