...our 'higher schools' are all set up for the most ambiguous mediocrity, with their teachers, curricula, and teaching aims. ... Everywhere an indecent haste prevails, as if something would be lost if the young man of twenty-three were not yet 'finished,' or if he did not yet know the answer to the "main question": which calling? A higher kind of human being, if I may say so, does not like "callings," precisely because he knows himself to be called. He has time, he takes time, he does not even think of 'finishing': at thirty one is, in the sense of high culture, a beginner, a child.

(Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols)