Emile Or on Education. Guidebook
Emile Or on Education. Guidebook by Stuart Fuller, published by Silk Label Books in 2019, is a concise exploration of educational philosophy, spanning 56 pages in English. This guidebook delves into the influential ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, particularly his seminal work, Émile, and examines its impact on both historical and contemporary educational thought.
Readers will find a thoughtful analysis that connects Rousseau’s educational theories with those of significant philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, and John Locke, as well as later thinkers like Mary Wollstonecraft and John Dewey. The book poses critical questions about the best methods for educating children, emphasizing the relevance of Rousseau’s ideas in today’s American education system. By juxtaposing the eighteenth-century context of Émile with modern educational challenges, this guidebook invites reflection on the evolution of educational practices and philosophies.
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“Rousseau had incorporated the educational ideas of the great philosophers who came before him: Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, and John Locke; Rousseau likewise inspired the educational theory of a series of great philosophers who came after him: Mary Wollstonecraft, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, John Dewey, B.F. Skinner, and A.S. Neill. Rousseau’s Émile is the center-point, the touchstone, in an extraordinary tradition. It asks a question that is still of burning relevance today: What is the best way to educate our children, the future of our civilization? One way to gain perspective on the current situation is to transplant Émile from eighteenth century France to twenty-first-century America. What light can Emile shed on the American education system? The modern-day, American Emile brings readers in contact with the ideas of Rousseau himself, along with those of his four antecedents and six successors.” — page 1.
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