The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
In plain words
School matters less for the facts than for teaching you to think.
Where these words come from
- 85% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Response in a New York Times interview (18 May 1921) on the purpose of education over rote fact-memorization.
- New York Times interview
- 1921 · New York · Reporters' questions after the so-called 'Edison test' controversy
