1. Jean Rousseau
Rousseau created a utopian model of one to one instruction and tutelage through the boy's youth. As in many his other work, this one assumed human beings were essentially good, and only the distorting influences of society corrupted them. He brought Émile far away from cities to get rid of the badness of society, and he taught Émile natural courses - purely from Émile's personal experience instead of told facts; so that knowledge was acquired through the youth's innate curiosity, not the statements of others. ... All he wrote in Émile may be to justi...
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