Hope this is self-explanatory enough.
FRANNY
“It was the worst of all in class, though,” she said with decision. “That was the worst. What happened was, I got the idea in my head- and I could not get it out- that college was just one more dopey, inane place in the world dedicated to piling up treasure on earth and everything. I mean treasure is treasure, for heaven’s sake. What’s the difference whether the treasure is money, or property, or even culture, or even just plain knowledge? It all seemed like exactly the same to me, if you take off the wrapping- and it still does! Sometimes I think that knowledge- when it’s knowledge for knowledge’s sake, anyway- is the worst of all. The least excusable, certainly.” Nervously, and without any need whatever, Franny pushed back her hair with one hand. “I don’t think it would have all got to me quite so down if just once in a while- just once in a while- there was at least some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, and that if it doesn`t, it`s just a disgusting waste of time! But there never is. You never even hear any hints dropped on campus that wisdom is supposed to be the goal of knowledge.
ZOOEY
“I take it that mostly you’re gunning against the system of higher education. Don’t spring at me, now- for the most part, I agree with you. But I hate the kind of blanket attack you’re making on it. I agree with you about ninety-eight per cent on the issue. But the other two per cent scares me half to death. I had one professor when I was in college- just one, I’ll grant you, but he was a big, big one- who just doesn’t fit in with anything you’ve been talking about. He wasn’t Epicetus. But he was no egomaniac, he was no faculty charm boy. He was a great and modest scholar. And what’s more, I don’t think I ever heard him say anything, either in or out of a classroom, that didn’t seem to me to have a little bit of real wisdom in it- and sometimes a lot of it. What’ll happen to him when you start your revolution? I can’t bear to think about it- let’s change the goddamn subject. These other people you’ve just been ranting about are something else again. This Professor Tupper. And those other two goons you were telling me about last night- Manlius, and the other one. I’ve had them by the dozens, and so has everybody else, and I agree they’re not harmless. They’re lethal as hell, as a matter of fact. God almighty. They make everything they touch turn absolutely academic and useless. Or-worse-cultish. To my mind, they’re mostly to blame for the mob of ignorant oafs with diplomas that are turned loose on the country every June. (…) It’s exactly like this damn ulcer I picked up. Do you know why I have it? Or at least nine-tenths of the reason I have it? Because when I’m not thinking properly, I let my feelings about television and everything else get personal. I do exactly the same thing you do, and I’m old enough to know better.”
-- J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey.