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Title: Emile (Everyman Paperback Classics) by Jean Jacques Rousseau, P.D. Jimack, Jean-Jacques Rosseau ISBN: 0-460-87380-6 Publisher: Everymans Library Pub. Date: November, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A pivotal personality in education!
Comment: This work by Jean Jacques Rousseau probably represents the single greatest work in defining what we would call education today. I am a Francophone living in Northern Ontario and so I have read just the french version, but barring that I believe that Rousseau was ahead of his time. His simple theory of education was the floor from which many other pedagogues would follow(Pestalozzi, Montessori, Itard, Séguin, among others). His theory of child development established him in all fairness, as the first psychologist of all time.
'The punishment is the natural consequence of the error' Such a novel concept for a time so tumultuous. One other statement is the following' You must begin by first knowing your children, because on the whole you do not'. Rousseau passions me and I believe him to be the reason why education turned towards the children rather than the teachers.
To conclude, I can say most assuredly that Rousseau, with his avant-garde tactics, awoke the world to the concept of an education centered around the child. If you lose the child, you lose the concept of education.
Rating: 5
Summary: A must read
Comment: Rousseau's "Emile" is a must read for everybody who is interested in education. The book may be more than 200 years old, but many of its insights could come up in any brand new treatise about modern methods of teaching.
"Emile" is the fictitious account of the ideal education of a boy. (Maybe it was Rousseau's way of dealing with his own failures as a father.) Rousseau believes that education must be to blame for the deplorable state of the world, as "Everything is good that the Lord has made, it only degenerates in the hands of man." So Rousseau rejects the drill and cruelty of the schools of his times, he opts for freedom and learning by doing. Much of this is utopian, of course, but in one of his brilliant remarks Rousseau claims that "saying: Suggest something that can be done, is like saying: suggest what we have been doing all along."
This is one of the most brilliant books I have ever read. If you read just one book about education, make it this one, even if you are not prepared to agree with Rousseau.
Rating: 2
Summary: Note that this translation is abridged.
Comment: (Ignore my 2-star rating, I had to put in something in order to get this review online.)
As I cross-checked the passages that most interested me with the French edition, I was surprised to find that entire paragraphs are left out of this English translation. I cannot yet speak for the comprehensiveness of other English translations.
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Title: The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Penguin Classics) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, J.M. Cohen ISBN: 014044033X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: August, 1953 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Maurice Cranston ISBN: 0140442014 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1968 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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Title: LA Nouvelle Heloise: Julie, or the New Eloise: Letters of Two Lovers, Inhabitants of a Small Town at the Foot of the Alps by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Judith McDowell, Judith H. McDowell ISBN: 0271006021 Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: December, 1989 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: Democracy And Education by John Dewey ISBN: 0684836319 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: A Discourse on Inequality (Penguin Classics) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Maurice Cranston ISBN: 0140444394 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: February, 1985 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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