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- “I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.” ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education.
- “To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence.
- “The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.” ― Rousseau, Emile, or On Education.
- “Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.” ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education.
“The inner growth of our organs and faculties is the education of nature, the use we learn to make of this growth is the education of men, what we gain by our experience of our surroundings is the education of things.”
Quotes from Emile or On Education. “I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.”. “To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence.
- Book I
- Book II
- Book III
- Book IV
- The Creed of The Savoyard Priest
- Book V
Tout est bien sortant des mains de l'Auteur des choses, tout dégénère entre les mains de l'homme.I shall always maintain that whoso says in his heart, "There is no God," while takes the name of God upon his lips, is either a liar or a madman.This collection of scattered thoughts and observations has little order or continuity; it was begun to give pleasure to a good mother who thinks for herself. My first idea was to write a tract a fe...With regard to what will be called the systematic portion of the book, which is nothing more than the course of nature, it is here that the reader will probably go wrong, and no doubt I shall be at...God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil. He forces one soil to yield the products of another, one tree to bear another's fruit. He confuses and confounds time, place,...Ambition, avarice, tyranny, the mistaken foresight of fathers, their neglect, their harshness, are a hundredfold more harmful to the child than the blind affection of the mother.Men, be kind to your fellow-men; this is your first duty, kind to every age and station, kind to all that is not foreign to humanity. What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? Love ch...
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.Jamais la nature ne nous trompe; c’est toujours nous qui nous trompons.Puisqu’il nous faut absolument des livres, il en existe un qui fournit, à mon gré, le plus heureux traité d’éducation naturelle. Ce livre sera le premier que lira mon Émile; seul il composera duran...Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body.This interval in which the strength of the individual is in excess of his wants is, as I have said, relatively though not absolutely the time of greatest strength. It is the most precious time in h...Keep this truth ever before you—Ignorance never did any one any harm, error alone is fatal, and we do not lose our way through ignorance but through self-confidence.Our passions are the chief means of self-preservation; to try to destroy them is therefore as absurd as it is useless; this would be to overcome nature, to reshape God's handiwork. If God bade man...
I was in that state of doubt and uncertainty which Descartes considers essential to the search for truth. It is a state which cannot continue, it is disquieting and painful; only vicious tendencies...
Women have ready tongues; they talk earlier, more easily, and more pleasantly than men. They are also said to talk more; this may be true, but I am prepared to reckon it to their credit; eyes and m...
Mankind has its place in the sequence of things; childhood has its place in the sequence of human life; the man must be treated as a man and the child as a child. Give each his place, and keep him there. Control human passions according to man's nature; that is all we can do for his welfare.
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Rousseau rejects the traditional methods of education prevalent in the 18th century, advocating for a more individualized and experiential approach. Rousseau's main argument in Emile is that education should be tailored to the needs and abilities of the individual child.
