《中庸》有言：“博學之，審問之，慎思之，明辨之，篤行之。”

前芝加哥大學校長Robert Maynard Hutchins 說：“Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight ... ”