I cannot see how somebody who did not at the right time go to a good school can ever make up for this. Such a person does not know himself; he goes through life without having learned to walk, the slack muscles are betrayed by every step […] Under all circumstances what is most desirable is a hard discipline at the right time, at that age when one is proud to see much demanded of one. What differentiates the hard school as the good school from every other is that much is demanded, that it is demanded strictly, that even the good and excellent are demanded as normal, that praise is infrequent, that indulgence is lacking, that reproaches are sharp and objective without regard to talent or origin […] The same discipline makes competent the scholar and the soldier, and strictly speaking there are no competent scholars who do not have within them the instincts of a competent soldier […] What does one learn in a hard school? To obey and to command. (Will to Power, no. 912)
