Education Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing it is out of the question.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“It is difficult for an education in which the heart is involved to remain forever lost.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Among the many short cuts to science, we badly need someone to teach us the art of learning with difficulty.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

“If one divided all of human science into two parts - the one common to all men, the other particular to the…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

“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

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

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

“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