4.2.26

Reason in school


The school has no more important task than to teach rigorous thinking, cautious judgement and consistent reasoning: therefore it had to avoid all those things that are of no use for these operations, for example religion. For it can be sure that, if the bow of thought has been stretched too light, human unclarity, habit and need will aftewards relax it again. But so long as it exerts influence it ought to extort that which distinguishes and is the essence of man: "reason and science, the supremest powers of man" - as Goethe at least judges.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844 - 1900