"The value of a college education is..." - Quote by Albert Einstein
The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think
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“The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual?”
“It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists (Jews) do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews.”
“Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.”
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“I want to make sure America has got the best education system in the world. And we're retaining our workers for the jobs of tomorrow.”
“In America, we then made a commitment, particularly after World War II with the GI Bill, to massively expand our commitment to college education, and that meant we had more engineers and we had more scientists and that meant we had better technology, which meant that we were more productive and we could succeed in the global marketplace.”
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
More on Thinking
“Think off-center.”
“Sometimes people need to experience acute suffering before the thinking and the awareness of the consciousness separate. People then realize there is another dimension in them that is not thinking but the ability to be aware of thinking. It is not emotion but the ability to be aware of emotion.”
“The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.”