Anti-Education On the Future of Our Educational Institutions

In 1869 at the age of twenty-four the precociously brilliant Friedrich Nietzsche was appointed to a professorship of classical philology at the University of Basel. He seemed marked for a successful and conventional academic career. Then the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the music of Wagner transformed his ambitions. The genius of such thinkers and makers—the kind of genius that had emerged in ancient Greece—this alone was the touchstone for true understanding. Anti-Education presents a provocative and timely reckoning with what remains one of the central challenges of the modern world.Regarded as one of the most profound German philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) is popularly considered a cultural critic and philologist whose work exerted a scholarly influence on modern intellectual history. His intellectual works focus on widespread themes such as religion morality philosophy and science. Prominent elements of his philosophy include his radical critique of truth a genealogical criticism of religion and Christian morality. His body of work touched a wide range of topics including art philology history music tragedy and culture most of which drew inspiration from Greek tragedy.