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Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Educational Philosophy
Rousseau’s treatise on pedagogy, Émile, or On Education (1762), proposed a radical restructuring of childhood development centered on the direct, unmediated experience of the natural world. He argued that education must shield the child from corrupting societal influence until the age of majority, allowing natural development to proceed unimpeded.
This methodology, often termed "negative education," insists that the teacher’s primary role is to …