I sincerely doubt that anyone, that is, anyone with more than a superficial reading of Nietzsche in their background, would confuse today’s “typical” public school graduate with one expressing their will to power.
Boy, what a misread.
I suppose the title of the article does seem misleading at first, but I meant it in a more complex sense...it’s not that public schools are deliberately raising children be like Nietzsche, but rather they now are trying to institutionalize an amoral, secularized mindset (i.e. sex education, pro-homosexuality, God is treated as offensive) that is similar to Nietzsche’s worldview, yet it is ironic because Nietzsche was not fond of institutionalized schooling or any sort of compulsion. I’m hypothesizing that Nietzsche’s rebellion against religion and God might actually be somewhat rooted in a rebellion against Prussian nationalism, of which public schooling was a key aspect.
If Nietzsche went through today’s public schooling, would he actually rebel in the opposite direction and become a Christian? Is public schooling setting itself up for a new type of rebellious little Nietzsches, perhaps individuals who are fiercely libertarian?
It’s a jumble of things to ponder.