#1. i think that the author choose this because owls looks smart and because Athena's pet is an owl.
#2. I think that a person that is educated has to be smart, fast reader, fast writer, wise and clever. the other thing that i think that a educated person must have manners and has to be polite to beings of humanity. i described an educated person as myself, a genius with out feelings.

Q:does a person have to be wise? intelligent? or clever?
A:no because maybe we are not.
Q: Does that person have to go to school? or old?
A:no it doesn't have to be old or even go to school.