We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing it is out of the question. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Among the many short cuts to science, we badly need someone to teach us the art of learning with difficulty.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
There exists one book, which, to my taste, furnishes the happiest treatise of natural education. What then is this marvelous book? Is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
We can never put ourselves in the shoes of children; we cannot fathom their thoughts, we lend them ours; and always following… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“People seek a tutor who has already educated one pupil. This is too much; one man can only educate one pupil; if… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“The worst education is to leave him floating between his will and yours, and to dispute endlessly between you and him as… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
We cannot teach children the danger of telling lies to men without realising, on the man's part, the danger of telling lies… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“If one divided all of human science into two parts - the one common to all men, the other particular to the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“But if the abberations of foolish youth made me forget suc wise lessons for a time,I have the happiness to sense at… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Education is either from nature, from man or from things. The developing of our faculties and organs is the education of nature;… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I will say little of the importance of a good education; nor will I stop to prove that the current one is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“It is difficult for an education in which the heart is involved to remain forever lost.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
But remain the teacher of the young teachers. Advise and direct us, and we will be ready to learn. I will have… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
“O Fabricius! What would your great soul have thought, if to your own misfortune you had been called back to life and had seen… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
“The sword wears out its sheath, as it is sometimes said. That is my story. My passions have made me live, and my passions… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good. Whatever I… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
“If one divided all of human science into two parts - the one common to all men, the other particular to the learned -… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
“How could I become wicked, when I had nothing but examples of gentleness before my eyes, and none around me but the best people… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
