![]() ![]() ![]() He writes that education “must give souls the national form, and so direct their tastes and opinions that they will be patriotic by inclination, passion, necessity.” Can this authoritarian approach to education be reconciled with the laissez-faire principles of Emile? Should either of these educational visions be called democratic? This chapter offers answers to those questions and argues that, ultimately, both approaches aim to improve how citizens relate to one another. He mutilates his dog, his horse, and his slave. The acclaimed series The Collected Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau concludes with a volume centering on Emile (1762), which Rousseau called his greatest and best book. He confuses and confounds time, place and natural conditions. ![]() He forced one soil to yield the products of another, one tree to bear another’s fruit. In other works, however, Rousseau calls for a system of public schooling that forms patriots. Emile Book 1 Jean Jacques Rousseau Introduction God makes all things good man meddles with them and they become evil. They believed that Rousseau outlined principles for forming autonomous and independent citizens – precisely the kind of citizens ready to meet the demands of democratic self-government. Rousseau’s educational philosophy was embraced by child-centered progressives committed to advancing a distinctively democratic conception of education. In Emile, Jean-Jacques Rousseau describes the education of a fictional student who follows his interests and discovers facts by problem-solving. ![]()
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