Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A major impetus for the current understanding of pedagogy was the educational philosophy of the Swiss social thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778). Concerned with the decay of society, he developed his theories based on his belief that human beings were inherently good as they were closest to nature when born, but society and its institutions corrupted them and denaturalized them. Consequently, bringing up children in harmony with nature and its laws so as to preserve the good was central for Rousseau’s pedagogic theory. Rousseau innovatively “argued that the momentum for learning was provided by the growth of the person (nature) – and that what the educator needed to do was to facilitate opportunities for learning,” as Doyle and Smith note.
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Famous quotes by jean-jacques rousseau:
“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.”
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
“There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, ‘Is it good in itself?’ In the second, ‘Can it be easily put into practise?’”
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
“O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.”
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
“We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.”
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
“I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don’t know.”
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)