The German word for “education” is “Bildung”, literally: “formation”. Now, apperception depends on the action of dominant representational masses, and self-control and self-awareness are functions of apperception. Thus the educator has a keen interest in forming or shaping the incipient concept- and maxim-masses in the young. Unless raw masses are strengthened and clarified, they will remain “mere heaps [of representations] lacking inner formation and order [Ausbildung und Anordnung], as in the case of rough persons” (SW VI: 147). The more reticulated representational chains become, the more defined, stable, and effective are the resulting concept-masses. These in turn allow for the most acute perception, as a 