Joe Clark = Ascetic Priest

Today in my education class, we watched part of the movie, Lean On Me, with Morgan Freeman. It's a movie about a failing inner city school being turned around with the help of new principle, Joe Clark. During his first speech, he tells his students that the only one to blame for their failures are themselves. As soon as I heard this, I thought of when Nietzsche talks about the ascetic priest, who believed that "you alone are to blame for yourself!" It looks like Joe Clark sides with the ascetic priest on this one.