His pedagogical principles still have a lot to offer to modern educators. Whether you agree on his ideas or not, it is obvious that what he saw 250 years ago hasn’t changed much. For many of us, it’s thought-provoking to see our own childhood and upbringing through Rousseau’s eyes. It was a completely different era then … or was it? This was during the times of the Enlightenment when rationality, the human mind and formal teaching were prevailing ideas. The book was burned, and Rousseau had to flee from his home in France to avoid being arrested and thrown into jail. But when the Swiss philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau submitted them in his educational novel “Émile” in 1762 people took serious offence. In it, he imagines a situation in which a young. Today, these considerations don’t seem so strange or surprising. The author of popular novels such as Emile, or On Education (1762), he achieved immortality with the publication of philosophical treatises such as The Social. French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote the philosophical treatise Emile, or On Education in 1762. In this way, they gain become confident and self-reliant. Therefore, according to Rousseau, the best we can offer our children is an upbringing full of freedom, possibilities to follow their curiosity and opportunities to explore and make their own experiences. In Rousseau’s view, humankind is good by nature – opposing other thinkers like Thomas Hobbes who believed that humans are inherently competitive and violent by nature.
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