Emile+(1762)

** Jean-Jacques Rousseau ** ||= Emile (1762) ||
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Emile, or On Education is a treatise on the nature of education and on the nature of man written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

** "On one level, //Emile// is a novel in which the narrator supervises Emile's education from infancy to adulthood, but the narration is really only the frame for long passages that describe ideals for education. The first four books concern Emile's infancy, childhood, and adolescence. The fifth book, which includes Emile's marriage and expectation of fatherhood, discusses women's education in the context of introducing Emile's wife-to-be, Sophie." **


 * Emile is scarcely a detailed parenting guide but it does contain some specific advice on raising children.
 * Emile urged mothers to cultivate to teach their children - emphasizing the role of the parent
 * "cultivate, water the young plant before it dies. Its fruits will one day be your delights... Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education." (Rousseau, 1979, p. 38)
 * In //Emile//, he gave most of his attention to the education of boys


 * His section on the education of girls, centered on the character of Sophie, proved to be one of his most controversial writing//Emile// served as the inspiration for what became a new national system of education.
 * It underlined the importance of mothers in educating their children, but encouraged teaching girls to be entirely subordinate and dependent on their husbands.
 * There are many early childhood programs that work with mothers & have recently extended to fathers to show them how to educate their children.

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