One doesn't need to teach a rubber ball how to bounce. That is just an inate quality of a rubber ball when one lets it bounce. Like the natural tendency for a rubber ball to bounce, it is also the natural tendency for governments to erode to the kind of natural state Machiavelli proposed.
So, Niccolò Machiavelli was a tyrant who led Western Europe further into the dark ages. Like Aristotle before him, he failed to grasp fully the significance of Socrates' concept of positive government as both Plato and Jean Rousseau were able to do. As Aristotle argued for Governmental Aristocracy while he later trained Prince Alexander to take his rightful place on his father's throne, this was basically Machiavelli's philosophy to. In comparison, the more courageous Socrates was arguing that the poor children (the peasant children in Machiavelli's day) could learn to live happier lives if teachers volunteered to serve them. This is why he likened himself as a "midwife philosopher to the poor."
For cripes sake, Niccolo Machiavelli was so ignorant that the behavior exhibited by Adolph Hitler later on would have pleased him.