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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Students of education and philosophy who need to read primary texts in the history of educational thought
- Primary and secondary school teachers and education researchers who want to reflect on the aims of education and views of childhood
- Parents concerned with liberal education who are willing to read slowly and examine views from an earlier era
Not a good fit for
- Readers looking for specific parenting techniques and step-by-step checklists
- Readers expecting light, story-driven reading and impatient with long expository passages
- Beginners lacking the patience to analyze eighteenth-century prose and gender views
Reading tips
- Read the introductory chapters and the sections on childhood first, then proceed by stages of growth rather than plowing straight through from the beginning.
- Mark passages that conflict with today's common educational sense as you read, and write brief comments to train critical understanding.
- Read alongside an introduction to the history of education or Rousseau studies to reduce misreading caused by missing background.
- Use the electronic edition's search function to do thematic rereading around keywords such as "nature," "habit," and "freedom."
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was a major thinker and writer of the French Enlightenment whose works have had a lasting influence on philosophy, education, and literature. The collection holds 21 of his works, most notably the various volumes of The Confessions, along with Emile. These writings display his characteristic first-person style of candid self-examination; The Confessions, with its frank and emotionally charged narrative, helped establish the modern autobiographical tradition, while Emile uses a fictional framework to explore educational ideas and stresses following children's natural development. Rousseau's prose combines intellectual inquiry with literary power, and his influence on later autobiography, educational thought, and Romantic literature has been enduring. Public information on the specific details of his life is limited, so this note focuses on the themes and style evident in his surviving works.
