Jean-Jacques Rousseau (
1712 – 1778) was a Genevan philosopher, writer,
and composer of 18th-century Romanticism of French expression. His political
philosophy influenced the French Revolution as well as the overall development
of modern political, sociological, and educational thought.
The first man who, having
fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people
naïve enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society.
From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes
might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up
the ditch, and crying to his fellows: Beware of listening to this impostor; you
are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all,
and the earth itself to nobody. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on
Inequality, 1754
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| Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ) |
“The noblest work in education is
to make a reasoning man, and we expect to train a young child by making him
reason! This is beginning at the end; this is making an instrument of a result.
If children understood how to reason they would not need to be educated.”–Rousseau, Emile, 1762.
Émile was the most influential work on
education after Plato's Republic
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