Emile (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading) by Jean Jacques Rousseau
English | September 10th, 2010 | ISBN: 1169775608, 0760773513 | 619 Pages | EPUB | 0.82 MB
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's thesis that children are naturally good at birth violated the traditional Christian doctrine of origin sin. His argument that education should arise from children's natural instincts and impulses rather than trying to civilize and socialize them challenged traditional schooling. Rousseau's defenders see him as a pioneering thinker whose revolutionary ideas about permissive child rearing generated the movement for child-centered progressive education.