Nietzsche's Theory Of Education Analysis

Friedrich Nietzsche was born on October 15, 1844 in Prussia. He wrote several critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science. After his studies at College, Nietzsche took up theology at the University of Bonn. In 1865, he abandoned theology and took up philology at the University of Leipzig. Nietzsche was nominated professor of classical philology at the University of Baselwhere he taught from 1869 to 1879. Nietzsche 's key philosophies include the Apollonian Dionysian dichotomy, perspectivism, the Will to Power, the "death of God", and eternal recurrence. He also emphasized the teaching of culture in education. In 1879, he was forced to resign because of a serious illness. From that time, he lived a lonely

We will focus especially his lecture The Future of our Educational Institutions, Untimely Meditations - On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life and Schopenhauer as Educator. In Nietzsche’s thoughts, education and culture are inseparable. As he says: “There can be no culture without an educational project, nor education without a culture to support it” . In his lectures on The Future of our Educational Institutions, Nietzsche thinks that the State and business persons are primarily responsible for the education. This philosophy was against biblical standards of education. As we know, families and churches should have the responsibility of children’s education. Governments only cause the slow maturation of children. What government wants from education were enough employees in the future who can work for the country. They teach teenagers how to earn money rapidly. But this is not all. When they demand a more profound education, they do so in order to make even more money. This kind of education always lead child to make bad decisions because they are not mature

Since most homes and many churches may not have or teach biblical standards, Christian schools then have a responsibility to help students acquire biblical standards and make them part of their lifestyle. Christian students, especially from non-Christian homes, need to be taught biblical personal standards to guide them in bringing their lives into conformity of Christlikeness. Biblical standards give students a foundation for their behavior, which gives them security and insulates them from media and peer pressure. So, Nietzsche’s philosophies are not good enough to teach in a Christian school. His educational philosophies turn men into machines. Children will be bored of his education and lose the concept of duty to God. His philosophy of knowledge says that there are not facts only interpretation. This means what human think is right. Human have a sinful nature, they do not know what is right. Human believe what they saw and what they heard. This will cause many misunderstandings. But the Bible tells us all truth is simple and based upon