![]() ![]() He believed that natural education promotes and encourages qualities such as happiness, spontaneity, and the inquisitiveness associated with childhood. He wanted to abandon society’s hypocrisy and pretentiousness. He also thought that individuals only learn these “bad habits” by living in the city, which is why he preferred a rural setting for children to learn. ![]() One of the most influential thinkers during the Enlightenment in 18th century Europe, his ideas concerning education and the role society plays in a child’s development/education was published in his famous work Emile, which caused some sparks to help light the French Revolution and eventually brought about his own exile from Paris.īorn at Geneva on June 28th, 1712, Rousseau’s ultimate belief was that people are born basically good, but are corrupted by society. Jean Jacques Rousseau was an 18th century philosopher who later became known as a revolutionary philosopher on education and a forerunner of Romanticism. ![]()
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