Nietzsche's Argument Against Historical Education

Friedrich Nietzsche argues that our current historical education is destroying our lives. Nietzsche believes that he must “protest against the historical education of modern youth” and that when he does protest he requires all new youth must “learn to live and use history only in service of the life they have learned to live” He believes that education in the early stages, is just a matter of teaching a child how to see the value of a certain group of things. This is done by teaching them the history of the world they live in. In Nietzsche’s world, he believes it’s all lies and is not granting the children a chance to set their own goals. He did not care so much about the truth; he just wanted you to act and get out there and do it. Not stand behind a book all day and learn about what happened in the past but to begin their future. Etienne Gilson would have to agree. Gilson believes in a Christian education revolving around the belief and loving of God. When he says Christian education, he means “the kind of education which is given in schools in which the whole life of
But Gilson does believe in following Christian faith which has been around for thousands of years and it should never be changed but only added too. Gilson knows there is a problem with the current modern world, between the choices of “enforcing moral code whose justification it does not itself recognize or to stand by and watch the gradual disintegration of public morality.” Nietzsche believes you are able to break old forms of education. He believes that “to break this education, he must help the youth to have its say, he must light the way for its unconscious resistance with the clarity of concepts and turn into a conscious, loudly consciousness" state of mind. This means both Nietzsche and Gilson both believe that they can improve education by helping the youth of modern