![]() His pedagogical principles still have a lot to offer to modern educators. Whether you agree on his ideas or not, it is obvious that what he saw 250 years ago hasn’t changed much. For many of us, it’s thought-provoking to see our own childhood and upbringing through Rousseau’s eyes. It was a completely different era then … or was it? This was during the times of the Enlightenment when rationality, the human mind and formal teaching were prevailing ideas. The book was burned, and Rousseau had to flee from his home in France to avoid being arrested and thrown into jail. But when the Swiss philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau submitted them in his educational novel “Émile” in 1762 people took serious offence. Queen of Palmyra : Adelaide OKeeffe, the Jewish Conversion Novel, and the Limits of Rational Education Madame de Genlis and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. ![]() He outlines a method of education, through various development stages, which is designed to raise into an upstanding citizen of superior ethics. Today, these considerations don’t seem so strange or surprising. Rousseau borrows upon the philosophical method of exploring ideas through theoretical narratives and places his discussion of education onto his fictional subject, young Emile. In this way, they gain become confident and self-reliant. ![]() Therefore, according to Rousseau, the best we can offer our children is an upbringing full of freedom, possibilities to follow their curiosity and opportunities to explore and make their own experiences. In Rousseau’s view, humankind is good by nature – opposing other thinkers like Thomas Hobbes who believed that humans are inherently competitive and violent by nature. ![]()
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