College --> "Education and not Training"

I have been listening to quite a few podcasts lately. I like the sermon messages of Charles Stanley and all his daily sermons are available as free podcasts. I also saw that Stanford has some podcasts . So I downloaded them and one of them was a presentation / discussion by professors from various cs research groups in stanford. They were talking about their vision for 2016. It was interesting. It was in the Q&A session of this talk, a prof explained that "Colleges provide only education and not training. We help people to think.." This is soo very true. Albert Einstein quotes thus "The true purpose of education is to train your mind to think". Education helps you to get an understanding of facts and think wildly and see beyond the obvious. You can "think deep" even with a good work experience but what differentiates education and experience ? I think education can impart an understanding and knowledge within 1.5 years and this amount of knowledge might take considerable longer time to achieve through experience.