"The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's time."

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Sydney J. Harris, as quoted in The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations (1989) by Robert Andrews; also quoted as: "...a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure."