Anti-Education
What if really opening oneself up to the life-changing study of humanities will often require an initial faith, so that those who already have this faith are the ones in whom it is likely to be renewed, and those who don't might well remain outside the cycle?, What if students at elite colleges are majoring in economics rather than English not beca
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from the introduction by Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon
Nietzsche's public audience was likely to be sympathetic to one of the main stands he took in his lectures. If we reduce the value of higher education to the material return on our financial investment, we will impoverish CC our culture and diminish ourselves.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche • Anti-Education
from the introduction by Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon
As academic disciplines grew to be more specialized and professionalized, they veered toward insularity and fragmentation. And philology led the way. It was the philologist August Böckh who, in 1812, launched the modern research seminar. Within a decade, the field of philology had begun to abandon traditional humanist concerns with the good life an
... See moreFriedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche • Anti-Education
from the introduction by Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon