Education Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

I teach you the Overman. Man is something which shall be surpassed.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

...the only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Your educators can only be your liberators.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Man vergibt seinem Lehrer schlecht, wenn man immer nur der Schüler bleibt. (One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The dyed-in-the-wool teacher takes everything seriously only with respect to his students--himself included.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is I, the ungodly Zarathustra, who says:Who is more ungodly than I, that I may rejoice in his teaching?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

School has no task more important than to teach strict thought, cautious judgment, and logical conclusions, hence it must pay no attention…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“In truth, nothing could be more opposed to the purely aesthetic interpretation and justification of the world which are taught in this…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I absolutely cannot see how one can later make up for having failed to go to a good school at the proper…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Two seemingly antagonistic forces, equally deleterious in their actions and ultimately combining to produce their results, are at present ruling over our…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“As long as a man knows very well the strength and weaknesses of his teaching, his art, his religion, its power is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I put forward at once — lest I break with my style, which is affirmative and deals with contradiction and criticism only…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is something quite amazing and monstrous about the education of upper-class women. What could be more paradoxical? All the world is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“This however is my teaching: he who wishes one day to fly, must first learn standing and walking and running and climbing…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If a woman seeks education it is probably because her sexual apparatus is malfunctioning.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“In large States public education will always be extremely mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is at…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you need to seduce the senses to it.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write. (VII,”

— Friedrich Nietzsche