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Miraculous education

Necromantia | Last Song For Valdezie | 1993

Interest in education will become genuinely intense only from the moment when belief in a god and his loving care is abandoned: just as the art of medicine could begin to flourish onl when belief in miraculous cures ceased. To the present day, however, all the world continues to believe in miraculous education: for the greatest disorder, confusion of objectives, unfavourable circumstances have succeded in producing the most fruitful and capable men, and how could there not be something uncanny in that? - Soon these cases too will be examined more closely and tested more carefully: no miracles will be discovered. Under the same circumstances countless men continually perish, the single individual who has been saved usually grows stronger as a consequence because, by virtue of an inborn, indestructible strength, he has undured these ill circumstances and in doing so exercised and augmented this strength: that is the explanation of the miracle. An education that no longer believes in miracles will have to pay attention to three things: firstly, how much energy is inherited? secondly, how can new energy be ignited? thirdly, how can the individual be adapted to the enormously diversified demands of culture without being distracted by them and his individuality dispersed - in short, how can the individual be se in place within the counterpoint of private and public culture, how can the play the main theme and at the same time the subordinate theme as well?

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844 - 1900