Emile: Or, Concerning Education Extracts
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    Emile: Or, Concerning Education Extracts
                                            
                            By Jean-Jacques Rousseau
                            
                                15 Nov, 2018                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        Emile, or On Education (French: Émile, ou De l’éducation) is a treatise on the nature of education and on the nature of man written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who considered it to be the "best and most important" of all his writings. Due to a sect
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                                                Emile, or On Education (French: Émile, ou De l’éducation) is a treatise on the nature of education and on the nature of man written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who considered it to be the "best and most important" of all his writings. Due to a section of the book entitled "Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar", Emile was banned in Paris and Geneva and was publicly burned in 1762, the year of its first publication. During the French Revolution, Emile served as the inspiration for what became a new national system of education. Less