Genevan-born Enlightenment philosopher whose 1762 Emile, part novel and part treatise, argued that a child's natural goodness should be drawn out through a graduated, experience-based education shielded from society's corrupting influence rather than suppressed by rote instruction. Condemned by Paris authorities on its publication, it became a founding text of child-centered pedagogy.
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Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionArgued in Emile that education should follow a child's natural stages of development away from the corrupting influence of society, shaping nearly every later theorist of child-centered education. 1 Notable WorkEmile, or On Education (1762) 1 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Source Wikipedia: John Amos Comenius
John Locke, Thinkers Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education shaped Rousseau and nearly every later writer on education, per Locke's own live entity-description.
Source Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Policies Informed
Pestalozzi drew on Rousseau's Emile for his ideas of natural, child-centred education.
Theories and Approaches Developed
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1. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford University, Metaphysics Research LabRousseau entry, opening paragraph
Rousseau's own view of most philosophy and philosophers was firmly negative, seeing them as post-hoc rationalizers of self-interest, as apologists for various forms of tyranny, and as playing a role in the alienation of the modern individual from humanity's natural impulse to compassion.
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Informed By: John Locke, Entity description, John Locke
His Some Thoughts Concerning Education was the most influential English-language educational treatise for over a century and shaped Rousseau and nearly every writer on education after him.
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Wikipedia: John Amos Comenius
Informed By: John Amos Comenius, Educational influence sectionQuote, Informed By: John Amos Comenius, Educational influence section
The second influence was in formulating the general theory of education. In this respect, he is the forerunner of Rousseau, Pestalozzi, Fröbel, etc.
Emile, or On Education (Wikipedia)
In Approach: Emile, or On Education, Lead section, first sentence
is a treatise on the nature of education and on the nature of man written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Theories and Approaches Developed: Emile, or On Education, Lead section
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.
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