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Émile, work on the philosophy of education by the Swiss-born French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78), written in a form that combined a novel with a didactic essay. Although Rousseau described Émile; ou, de l’education (1762; Émile; or, On Education) as a treatise on education, it is not.
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Some knowledge is of course necessary, but if Émile has not learned everything, it will be easy for him to do so when he wants because he has learned to learn.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–88), one of the most important social and political philosophers of modern times, wrote a book on education which described the way he would educate an imaginary boy, Emile. The education Rousseau recommended for Emile’s wife-to-be, Sophy, is presented in Chapter 5.
The text is divided into five books: the first three are dedicated to the child Emile, the fourth to an exploration of the adolescent, and the fifth to outlining the education of his female counterpart Sophie, as well as to Emile's domestic and civic life.
Èmile, or On Education is remembered best as Rousseau’s statement of his philosophy of education and as a groundbreaking work in educational reform.
Published in 1762, Emile, or On Education, outlined a process of education that would prevent man from being corrupted by society and instead nurture his natural virtues and goodness. Part-treatise, part-novel, the work recounts the life of a fictional character named Emile, following his development during childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.
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She must find a way to make us desire what she cannot achieve unaided and what she considers necessary or pleasing; therefore she must have a thorough knowledge of man's mind; not an abstract knowledge of the mind of man in general, but the mind of those men who are about her, the mind of those men who have authority over her, either by law or ...
