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:
“The members of a body-politic call it ‘the state’ when it is passive, ‘the sovereign’ when it is active, and a ‘power’ when they compare it with others of its kind. Collectively they use the title ‘people,’ and they refer to one another individually as ‘citizens’ when speaking of their participation in the authority of the sovereign, and as ‘subjects’ when speaking of their subordination to the laws of the state.”
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
“The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.”
—Isadora Duncan (1878–1927)
“It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.”
—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)
“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.”
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)