The whole higher education in Germany, the main thing is lost: the purpose both as a means to that education, education is itself an end - and not [". the economy "] - that to this end the teacher needs - and not the high school teachers and university scholars - they forgot a. .. Educators not to do that are self-educated, überlegne, noble spirits, at every moment, proved by words and silence proved ripe, sweet culture has become - not the learned louts, which high school and university youth meet brings today as more nurses. " The teachers are missing, the exceptions to the exceptions set off that first condition of education: hence the decline of German culture. [...] - What to do to achieve the "higher schools" in Germany actually, this is a brutal training in order, with a minimum loss of time, a myriad of young men for [the economy] usable, exploitable. "Higher Education "and innumerable - that is contradictory from the start. Every higher education is one of the only exception: it must be privileged to be a right to have such a high privilege. All great, all the beautiful things can never be common property: pulchrum est hominum paucorum. - What caused the decline of German culture? That "higher education" is no more privilege - the democracy of the "common", the public gewordnen "education" ... Not to be forgotten that military privileges of the too-much-visit the high schools, that is their downfall, literally force. - No one will be free to present Germany in his children a to be noble education: our "higher" schools are all set up on the most ambiguous mediocrity, with teachers using the curriculum, with teaching objectives. And everywhere there is an indecent haste, as if as if something fails, if the young man of 23 years is still not "ready, not answer," white on the "main question: what job? - A higher type of man, say so loves, not "professionals, precisely because they do rely ... She has time, she takes the time she did not remember, are "ready to - at thirty one is, in the sense of high culture, a beginner, a child. - Our overcrowded schools, our cluttered, stupid high school teachers have made a scandal in order to take these states to protect, this [...] you might have causes - are reasons why not.
by: Friedrich Nietzsche
(with slight variations)
Twilight of the Idols
see KSA 6, p. 107f
