Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.

Source: Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters‎ (1899), page 186. Complete Sentence: Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth. The intellectual kings of the earth have seldom been college-bred.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.

Source: Albert Einstein, in response to not knowing the speed of sound as included in the Edison Test: New York Times (18 May 1921). Complete Sentence: [I do not] carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. …The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts Read More…

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think. – Albert Einstein 0

Source: Albert Einstein, In response to not knowing the speed of sound as included in the Edison Test: New York Times (18 May 1921); Einstein: His Life and Times (1947) Philipp Frank, page 185. Complete Quote: [I do not] carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. …The value of Read More…

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The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.

Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay – everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don’t want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.

In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.