But the point of education is not to earn money. None of the great rabbanim of the past who discussed the value of a general education stressed its financial value â not the Rambam, not the Vilna Gaon, not Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch. They stressed instead its intrinsic worth. What intrinsic worth could a general education have? Perhaps the following: Math: Galileo said, âMathematics is the language with which G-d wrote the universe.â My father, aâh, pointed out that Sefer Yetzirah makes the very same point. In its opening paragraph, it says the world was created with â sâfar (numbers),