Textbooks are essential and informative, however they are not the main core value of education. If we truly depend on textbooks, our world would be as naive as the natives in the age of colonization. Schopenhauer provides the difference between reading and thinking. “Reading forcibly imposes on the mind thoughts equally foreign to its state of mind and its direction” (Schopenhauer, page 89). Reading is an escape from reality. It penetrates the mind and alters thinking. “The mind is totally subjected to an external constraint” (Schopenhauer, page 89) although reading is important, it can compromise personal thinking. “That the surest way to never have thoughts of your own is to pick up a book whenever you have a free moment.” (Schopenhauer, pg. 90) When it comes to reading college content, it has no originality. We are getting our extraneous thinking from a text that has been edited, therefore teaching only one purpose and that is to provide facts. We cannot get wisdom from textbooks. Universities provide textbooks that are a copy of another copy; that is, information is the production of someone else's idea following, another's ideas, and so on. “All that has been taught is a criticism of words and fifty criticisms of them kept side by side and intermingled” (Nietzsche, p. 187). What can we get from a mix of words? Criteria well met. It is possible to have our own thoughts and ideas; if we merely prefigure a textbook, we will become a textbook itself. “People who spend their lives reading and acquire their wisdom from books are like those who learn about a country from a travel description” (Schopenhauer, page 91) we must draw our wisdom from our thoughts and not from what is changing to from of