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Single Idea 14845

[catalogued under 25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / a. Aims of education]

Full Idea

For heaven's sake, do not pass our Gymnasium education on to girls too! For it often turns witty, inquisitive, fiery youths - into copies of their teachers!

Gist of Idea

Don't crush girls with dull Gymnasium education, the way we have crushed boys!

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (Human, All Too Human [1878], 409)

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Human, All Too Human', ed/tr. Faber,Marion [Penguin 1994], p.199