Emile, or, Concerning education : extracts : containing the principal elements of pedagogy found in the first three books
(2011)
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[United States]: Neeland Media LLC, 2011
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9781596744776 (electronic bk.) MWT11933209, 1596744774 (electronic bk.) 11933209
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⁹mile is an imaginary student put forth by Rousseau to illustrate his idea of "negative education," in other words, education in harmony with a child's natural capacity through a process of autonomous discovery. Rousseau removes the authoritative, domineering teacher figure, and instead wants mothers to encourage children's natural tendencies, without coddling or spoiling them. The work was controversial in its own time, but later inspired a new national system of education during the French Revolution, and to some has earned Rousseau the title of "father of modern education."
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