Educational contributions of rousseau and how it is related to present education
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Jean Jacque Rousseau was a great philosopher born in Geneva on 28 June 1712; he died in Ermenoville in 1778. His contributions are social and political theories with the social contact of 1762, an easy of fundamental questions of social justice and political legitimacy. He also wrote a very important book on education theory through widen intent, Emile or on education (1762) which as influenced on the society at the present time. (Routledge, 2005, p.21).The course of his life is also very remarkable his mother died just after a few days after his birth; he left Geneva on impulse when he was not yet sixteen, converted to Roman Catholicism, was taken in by and became the lover of a woman thirteen years older than himself. That relationship failed after several years. (Taneja, V.R. 2010, pp. 103-104). In education factor, Rousseau conveyed his educational philosophy through his famous novel, Emile, which tells the story of the boy’s education from infancy to adolescent. He believed that people were noble savages, innocent, free, and uncorrupted by socioeconomic artificialities and the goal of his education is “to create learning environment that allow the children innate natural goodness to flourish which closely related to the nature that children experience”.
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