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“Without the study of books, such a memory as the child may possess is not left idle; everything he sees and hears makes an impression on him, he keeps a record of men's sayings and doings, and his whole environment is the book from which he unconsciously enriches his memory, till his judgment is able to profit by it.”
― 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
“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
“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
“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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