Exploration in the educational perspectives of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Being more radical than “John Locke”, “Charles de Montesquieu”, and “Hobbes”, “Jean-Jacques Rousseau” is known as one of the critics of the philosophy of Enlightenment in the world.

To him human’s negligence from freedom is equivalent with his negligence from his nature and human rights.

“Emile” or “On Education” is one of the most important books of Rousseau written on child education.

Rousseau suggests that the training method of children and teenagers is not the necessity of limiting the young adults’ mind, but since the goal of education is producing a rational creature, if the method cannot predict its results, it leads to extreme consequences.