Write briefly about the ideas of rousseau on education and schooling.
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Knowledge constitutes the ability to reason and use our senses to learn; if we use books in place of nature and our senses it teaches us to believe much and know little .
The instruments of knowledge is our own body.
Education should be rooted in man's moral nature .
Educate to be a man, not one profession, he will be able to do whatever is needed in any situation .
He stresses the importance of a progressive education adapted to the individuals developing needs so to follow "the natural progress of the human heart.'
Starts from a fundamental principle (man's natural goodness) derived initially from personal intuition and is verifiable by observation and psychological analysis .
Early education is based primarily on the senses; promotes direct contact with the physical world; no book learning for early education .
Learning is done through trial and error, experimentation through concrete medium .
Only book allowed a child was Robinson Crusoe because it describes a man's reliance on his own ingenuity and resourcefulness.
No judgement on accomplishments; the child is happy as he is unaware of capacity and desire, power and will, and artificial needs ("happy savage").
Rousseau recognizes the need for the child to be prepared for the future. Within the child is a reservoir of potential energy they don't need immediately; the educators task is to hold back the energy until it can be used effectively.
After lessons of necessity, lessons of utility are to be learned to develop reason to be applied to what interests and helps him .
Early judgments must be formed not through words or abstractions but through sensations and feelings. A positive education begins only when the child becomes aware of his relationships with other people based on sensibility, particularly the innate feeling of pity, and later love and aversion.
Through the source of our passions we are impelled *beyond ourselves" and extend our being.
Primitive stage complete, move onto involving ourselves in relations with the physical realm of nature and the world of human beings.
A lie: ... in society man cherishes as virtues what are really vices, i.e. the lie of politeness.
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Theory of edycation emphasized the importance of expression to produce a well-balanced,freethinking child. He belived that if children are allowed to develop naturally without constraints imposed on them by society they will develop towards their fullest potential,both educationally and morally....
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