Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

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Geniuses and their followers

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Wisdom about the challenge of learning from a great genius and then finding one’s own path. Here is Zarathustra:

“Now I go alone, my disciples, You too, go now, alone. Thus I want it. Go away from me and resist Zarathustra! And even better: be ashamed of him! Perhaps he deceived you. The man of knowledge must not only love his enemies, he must be able to hate his friends. One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a student. And why do you not want to pluck at my wreath? You revere me; but what if your reverence tumbles one day? Beware lest a statue slay you. You say that you believe in Zarathustra? But what matters Zarathustra? You are my believers—but what matter all believers? You have not yet sought yourselves; and you found me. Thus do all believers; therefore all faith amounts to so little. Now I bid you lose me and find yourselves; and only when you have all denied me will I return to you.”

(Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The image is Caspar David Friedrich’s “The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog” [circa 1818].)

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Postmodern education: History

apple-88x50Stephen Hicks discusses the use of history in postmodern education. This is from Part 14 of his Philosophy of Education course.

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Postmodern education: Science

apple-88x50Stephen Hicks discusses the critique of science in postmodern education. This is from Part 14 of his Philosophy of Education course.

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Postmodern education: Teacher training

apple-88x50What sort of teacher is desirable from the pomo perspective — Stephen Hicks discusses teacher training in postmodern education. This is from Part 14 of his Philosophy of Education course.

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Henry Giroux on education

apple-88x50Stephen Hicks discusses postmodernist Henry Giroux on education. This is from Part 14 of his Philosophy of Education course.

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Education during the dictatorship of the proletariat

apple-88x50Stephen Hicks discusses Marxism’s view of education during the dictatorship of the proletariat, i.e., during the transition from capitalism to socialism. This is from Part 13 of his Philosophy of Education course.

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Education under socialism

apple-88x50In the final section of Part 13 of his Philosophy of Education course, Professor Hicks discusses the Marxist view of education under socialism.

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The role of teachers in developing revolutionaries

apple-88x50Stephen Hicks discusses Marxism on the role of teachers in developing revolutionaries. This is from Part 13 of his Philosophy of Education course.

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