User:Czar/drafts/Emile

Overview

The book is the fictional story of Émile, a boy, and his education from birth through adulthood.^{[citation needed]} Rousseau wrote the story as a means^{[citation needed]} to explicate his extended views and advice on childrearing and elementary education.^[1]

Émile is raised apart from other children by a personal tutor. The child experiences the principles of property, physics, and morals through firsthand experiment. Each experiment may appear arbitrary, but each cleverly relays a concrete lesson. The book culminates with Émile's marriage with Sophie, a female who had received a similar education.^[1]

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Reception

The book was immediately denounced by the Archbishop of Paris, and Rousseau was forced into exile from France.^[1]

The 1917 Reader's Digest of Books described Emile as "unsystematic, sometimes impracticable, full of suggestion, ... [investing] the revolutionary ideas of its authors with his customary literary charm".^[1]

Legacy

Many writers described the work as the single greatest on the topic of education (G. D. H. Cole^[2] ...). The Reader’s Digest of Books called it "the most famous of pedagogic romances".^[1]

The book became the foundation for 20th century progressive education pedagogy.^[1] It was a stated influence on the ideas of Johann Bernhard Basedow, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, and Friedrich Fröbel.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Keller, Helen Rex, ed. (1917). "Emilé". The Reader’s Digest of Books. The Library of the World’s Best Literature. Warner Library Co. Retrieved December 29, 2015.
^ http://www.bartleby.com/168/1000.html

External links

Media related to Émile, ou De l'éducation at Wikimedia Commons

[World's_Best_Lit-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Keller, Helen Rex, ed. (1917). "Emilé". The Reader’s Digest of Books. The Library of the World’s Best Literature. Warner Library Co. Retrieved December 29, 2015.

[2] ttp://www.bartleby.com/168/1000.html

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