"It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks"

--Albert Einstein, 1921, on Thomas Edison's opinion that a
college education is useless. Quoted in Frank, Einstein: His Life and
Times, p. 185, according to The Quotable Einstein, Princeton
University Press.

"The aim [of education] must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life achievement"