“‘What is the task of all higher education?’ To turn men into machines. ‘What are the means?’ Man must learn to be bored. ‘How is that accomplished?’ By means of the concept of duty. ‘Who serves as the model?’ The philologist: he teaches grinding. ‘Who is the perfect man?’ The civil servant. ‘Which philosophy offers the highest formula for the civil servant?’ Kant’s: the civil servant as a thing-in-itself raised up to be judge over the civil servant as phenomenon.”

—Twilight of the Idols, “Skirmishes of an Untimely Man,” sec. 29.

(Note: Nietzsche was trained as a classical philologist, and so treats, throughout his career, philology as the paradigm instance of scholarly activity, in both its good and bad senses.)