Emile, or On Education (French: Émile, ou De l’éducation) is a treatise on the nature of education and on the nature of man written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who considered it to be the "best and most important" of all his writings. [1]
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Overview of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Emile, or On Education, its educational program, key themes of nature and freedom, and its historical impact.
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When once Emile has said, “It hurts me,” it will take a very sharp pain to make him cry. If the child is delicate and sensitive, if by nature he begins to cry for nothing, I let him cry in vain and soon check his tears at their source.
In Becoming Visible: Women in European History, ed. Renate Bridenthal, Susan Mosher Stuard, and Merry E. Wiesner, 233-260. 3rd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Émile, ou de l’éducation (Emile, or On Education) Paris 1762. Images Image 1: Source Image 2: Source Image 3: Source
Originally 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.
But as to the rules which call for proof, I have applied them to Emile or to others, and I have shown, in very g reat detail, how my theories may be put into practice. Such at least is my plan; the reader must decide whether I have succeeded.
Emile will speak the purest French I know, but he will speak it more distinctly and with a better articulation than myself.
We are obliged to exercise judgment, to make selections. Some of it must be taken, some left untouched. This is what we have done in the present edition. We have not, indeed, the presumption to correct Rousseau, or to substitute an expurgated "Emile" for the authentic "Emile."
The section of the book entitled "Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar," caused Emile to be banned in Paris and Geneva and was publicly burned in 1762, the year of its first publication.
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Dowling, Wyatt James. “Science, “Robinson Crusoe”, and Judgment: A Commentary on Book III of Rousseau’s “Emile”.” Order No. 3301787, Boston College, 2007. Goodman, Bridenthal, Renate, Susan Mosher Stuard, and Merry E. Wiesner. “Dena, “Women and the Enlightenment.”Chapter 9 Women and the Enlightenment.”
Pestalozzi of Zurich, one of the foremost educators of modern times, also found his whole life transformed by the reading of "Emile," which awoke in him the genius of a reformer.