Emile by Jean Jacques Rousseau is conveniently broken up into 5 sections of narrative and essays, each of which deals with either a particular age group or time in a young person’s life. While this is still technically fiction, the style and tone is didactic and the narrator often slips off into long diatribes about his own past as well his feelings about society, religion, and moral matters. The culmination of these two statements on learning is the marriage of Emile and Sophie, a girl who was raised according to Rousseau’s model of rearing for young women. Much of Emile is dedicated to the raising of a young man but the last section is devoted to the education of girls. In true form to the ideas put forth during the Enlightenment, Emile grows up in a state of nature and learns by Rousseau’s methods which emphasize stages of learning and development and processes of natural inquiry. To offer a short summary of Emile, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau under the careful guidance of his master it is important to recognize the philosophical and creative movement of the Enlightenment that this work spawned from. In Emile, Rousseau and his fictitious account on properly raising a young boy to become a man, several theories about education are discussed and put into practice into the boy’s life.
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