On the Future of Our Educational Institutions by Friedrich Nietzsche audiobook.
Genre: philosophy
In On the Future of Our Educational Institutions, Friedrich Nietzsche delivers a provocative diagnosis of what education is becoming and what it ought to be. Framed as a sequence of public lectures, the work follows a young listener drawn into an intense conversation about the fate of schools, universities, and culture itself. Nietzsche argues that modern education is being pulled in two dangerous directions at once: toward mass expansion that prizes usefulness and quick credentials, and toward narrow specialization that produces experts without inner cultivation. Against these trends, he defends Bildung - the slow formation of character, taste, and intellectual integrity - and insists that great teachers, serious language study, and a living relationship to art and classical learning are not luxuries but the conditions for genuine culture. Along the way, he questions who education should serve, what kind of human being it should shape, and how institutions can resist the pressures of the state, the market, and fashionable opinion. Urgent, satirical, and fiercely idealistic, Nietzsche's lectures remain a bracing challenge to anyone who cares about what learning is for.
Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:07:45) Chapter 02
(00:21:11) Chapter 03
(01:17:26) Chapter 04
(02:16:00) Chapter 05
(03:04:30) Chapter 06
(03:59:40) Chapter 07
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