Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzschewas a German philosopher, cultural critic, poet and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history. He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. He became the youngest ever to hold the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in 1869, at the age of 24. Nietzsche resigned in 1879 due to health problems that plagued him most of his life, and...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth15 October 1844
CityRocken, Germany
CountryGermany
You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.
One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster.
You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.
THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and recipient minds! The middlemen almost unconsciously adulterate the food which they supply. It is because of teachers that so little is learned, and that so badly.
Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.
There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a seemingly higher order of things, and thereby to retain their satisfaction with the actual world in which they find it difficult enough to live - this very difficulty being necessary.
History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.
Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit...I doubt whether such pain improves us-but I do know it deepens us.
Nothing can be done about it: every master has but a single pupil--and he will not stay loyal to him--for he is also destined to become a master.
The dyed-in-the-wool teacher takes everything seriously only with respect to his students--himself included.
I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?
I teach you the Overman. Man is something which shall be surpassed.