Work · Friedrich Nietzsche
On the Future of Our Educational Institutions
Five dialogical lectures criticize education subordinated to economic usefulness and quantitative expansion.
Understanding the text
Delivered in Basel in 1872, the five lectures belong to an unfinished project on the purposes of education and the institutions responsible for it.
Key points
- 01
Expansion
Broader provision can accompany declining rigor and independence.
- 02
Language
Attentive command of language is presented as an education of judgment.
- 03
Elitism
The educational ideal assumes hierarchies that require discussion rather than conversion into universal advice.
How to read it
Follow the dialogue's characters and ask who is excluded from the educational ideal.
Editions & sources
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