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Single Idea 14839

[filed under theme 25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / b. Education principles ]

Full Idea

Interest in education will gain great strength only at the moment when belief in a God and his loving care is given up.

Gist of Idea

Interest in education gains strength when we lose interest in God

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (Human, All Too Human [1878], 242)

Book Ref

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Human, All Too Human', ed/tr. Faber,Marion [Penguin 1994], p.149

A Reaction

This remark may well sum up the motivation of my entire life. What effect would it have had if I had read it when I was twenty?

The 18 ideas with the same theme [principles and values in educating the young]:

1552 He spent public money on education, as it benefits the individual and the state [Protagoras, by Diodorus of Sicily]
5833 Education is the greatest of human goods [Xenophon]
238 Children's games should channel their pleasures into adult activity [Plato]
257 Mathematics has the widest application of any subject on the curriculum [Plato]
260 Control of education is the key office of state, and should go to the best citizen [Plato]
2148 To gain knowledge, turn away from the world of change, and focus on true goodness [Plato]
2152 Dialectic is the highest and most important part of the curriculum [Plato]
331 Bad governments prevent discussion, and discourage the study of virtue [Plato]
3037 Aristotle said the educated were superior to the uneducated as the living are to the dead [Aristotle, by Diog. Laertius]
8768 Books are endless, and study is wearisome [Anon (Ecc)]
13304 Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius]
5305 Communists want to rescue education from the ruling class [Marx/Engels]
19245 We are not inspired by other people's knowledge; a sense of our ignorance motivates study [Peirce]
8619 To learn something, you must know that you don't know [Frege]
14839 Interest in education gains strength when we lose interest in God [Nietzsche]
14848 Education in large states is mediocre, like cooking in large kitchens [Nietzsche]
14886 Education is contrary to human nature [Nietzsche]
3983 Learning is evolution in the brain [Dennett]