Assuming one thinks of a philosopher as a great educator, powerful enough to draw up to his [sic] lonely height a long chain of generations, then one must also grant him [sic] the uncanny privileges of the great educator. An educator never says what he [sic] himself [sic] thinks, but always only what he [sic] thinks of a thing in relation to the requirements of those he [sic] educates. He [sic] must not be detected in this dissimulation; it is part of his [sic] mastery that one believes in his [sic] honesty. He [sic] must be capable of employing every means of discipline: some he [sic] can draw toward the heights only with whips of scorn; others, who are sluggish, irresolute, cowardly, vain, perhaps only with exaggerated praise. Such an educator is beyond good and evil; but no one must know it.

—Friedrich Nietzsche