William James, 1842-1910
was an US Pragmatist philosopher and psychologist
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
was an US (German-born) physicist
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
( “On Education”, 1950 )
The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.