Jean-JacquesRousseau
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Jean-JacquesRousseau (1712-1778) wasaGenevanphilosopher, writer, , aswellasaspectsoftheFrenchRevolutionandtheoveralldevelopmentofmodernpoliticalandeducationalthought.
èmile,orOnEducation, Rousseau’smasterpiece,isakindofhalftreatise, halfnovelthattellsthelifestoryofafictionalmannamed èmile.Init, Rousseautracesthecourseof èmile’sdevelopmentandtheeducationhereceives, aneducationdesignedtocreateinhimallthevirtuesofRousseau’sidealized “naturalman”, uncorruptedbymodernsociety.
ThefollowingpassageisanexcerptfromBook1ofRousseau’s èmile, orOnEducation.
PromptsforYourReading
, whyisManinneedofeducation?
’snotionofeducation?
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’sdefinitionofnature?
5.WhatisthemajorargumentinParagraph11concerninghabits?
6.WhatarethoseprejudicesthatRousseauhasmentionedinParagraphs12and13?
, todowellinacallingortobeaman?
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’sphilosophyofeducation?
[1] Godmakesallthingsgood; , onetreetobearanother’, , hishorse, ; helovesallthatisdeformedandmonstrous; hewillhavenothingasnaturemadeit, notevenmanhimself, whomustlearnhispaceslikeasaddle-horse, andbeshapedtohismaster’stastelikethetreesinhisgarden.
[2] Yetthingswouldbeworsewithoutthiseducation, , authority, necessity, example, allthesocialconditionsintowhichweareplunged, wouldstiflenatureinhimandputnothinginherplace.Shewouldbelikeasaplingchance2sowninthemidstofthehighway, benthitherandthitherandsooncrushedbythepassers-by.
[3] Tender, anxiousmother, ’ssoul; anothermaysketchtheplan, youaloneshouldcarryitintoexecution.
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