His observation that children develop via a series of clearly demarcated stages, each with its own unique cognitive and emotional capacities, underpinned the Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget’s theories of child psychology in the 1920s. His stress on the training of the body as well as the mind was the forerunner of the mania for organised sports that swept English boarding schools in the 19th century and inspired Baron Pierre de Coubertin to found the modern Olympic Games in 1896. Rousseau’s advocacy of learning via direct experience and creative play inspired the Swiss educational reformer Johann Pestalozzi, the German educator Friedrich Fröbel and the kindergarten movement. This reading is from Barbara Foxley's 1912 translation from -Jacques Rousseau’s Émile or On Education (1762) is perhaps the most influential work on education written in the modern world. Tho' nature points out the time when youth emerges from infancy this period may be either accelerated or retarded by education.' It was originally translated into English as early as 1768. At the age of puberty commences the second birth, when he is truly born to live, and enters into full possession of the powers of human nature. 'Rousseau says man is born twice, first to exist, then to live once to a species and again with regard to sex. The book was reviewed in The Monthly Review 1763 printed by Ralph Griffiths. Then he created an imaginary mate for Emile named Sophy. As tutor, he was careful to keep the passions in check while developing the mind. Rousseau created an imaginary child named Emile and became his tutor. This was due to the Fourth Book, Confessions of a Savoyard Priest. The Archbishop of Paris, Christophe de Beaumont (1703-1781), saw in it a dangerous, mischievous work, and gave himself the trouble of writing a long encyclical letter in order to point out the book to the reprobation of the faithful.

Some of his biographers relate the story that when the Academy of Dijon, in 1749, offered a prize for an essay on the question whether the progress of the arts and sciences has tended to the purification of morals and manners, he followed the suggestion of Diderot, who reminded him of the greater notoriety which he could gain by advocating the negative side. The significance of Rousseau in education as well as in politics must be found in his revolutionary attitude toward established institutions. Emile, or On Education or Г‰mile, or Treatise on Education (French: Г‰mile, ou De lвЂ™Г©ducation) was published in 1762 in French and German and in 1763 in English.

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