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“There is quite another class of exceptions: those so gifted by nature that they rise above the level of their age. As there are men who never get beyond infancy, so there are others who are never, so to speak, children, they are men almost from birth. The”
― The Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract, Confessions, Emile, and Other Essays
― The Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract, Confessions, Emile, and Other Essays
“Young teacher, pray consider this example, and remember that your lessons should always be in deeds rather than words, for children soon forget what they say or what is said to them, but not what they have done nor what has been done to them.”
― The Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract, Confessions, Emile, and Other Essays
― The Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract, Confessions, Emile, and Other Essays
“When I thus get rid of children's lessons, I get rid of the chief cause of their sorrows, namely their books. Reading is the curse of childhood, yet it is almost the only occupation you can find for children. Emile, at twelve years old, will hardly know what a book is. "But," you say, "he must, at least, know how to read.”
― The Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract, Confessions, Emile, and Other Essays
― The Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract, Confessions, Emile, and Other Essays
“Children's lies are therefore entirely the work of their teachers, and to teach them to speak the truth is nothing less than to teach them the art of lying. In your zeal to rule, control, and teach them, you never find sufficient means at your disposal. You wish to gain fresh influence over their minds by baseless maxims, by unreasonable precepts; and you would rather they knew their lessons and told lies, than leave them ignorant and truthful.”
― The Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract, Confessions, Emile, and Other Essays
― The Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract, Confessions, Emile, and Other Essays
“To select these objects, to take care to present him constantly with those he may know, to conceal from him those he ought not to know, this is the real way of training his early memory; and in this way you must try to provide him with a storehouse of knowledge which will serve for his education in youth and his conduct throughout life. True, this method does not produce infant prodigies, nor will it reflect glory upon their tutors and governesses, but it produces men, strong, right-thinking men, vigorous both in mind and body, men who do not win admiration as children, but honour as men.”
― The Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract, Confessions, Emile, and Other Essays
― The Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract, Confessions, Emile, and Other Essays
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