… the purpose of any education worthy of the name is to cultivate in students 'habits of sound
reading and reflection' and to enable them not merely to appreciate the printed word but to
distinguish, with the aid of the higher will and imagination as well as reason, the universal and
abiding from the ephemeral and idiosyncratic. —Irving Babbitt

任何事可以稱得上教育的﹐其目的都是在培養學生博覽群書和反躬自省的習性﹐並教他們在照本宣科之外﹐

還能夠運用意志力﹑想像力﹑推理力﹐從碧落黃泉之涯﹐找到一以貫之﹑生生不息的真理。—教育哲學家﹐爾文巴比特