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Overview
[edit]The book is the fictional story of Émile, a boy, and his education from birth through adulthood.[citation needed] Rousseau wrote the story as a means[citation needed] to explicate his extended views and advice on childrearing and elementary education.[1]
Émile is raised apart from other children by a personal tutor. The child experiences the principles of property, physics, and morals through firsthand experiment. Each experiment may appear arbitrary, but each cleverly relays a concrete lesson. The book culminates with Émile's marriage with Sophie, a female who had received a similar education.[1]
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[edit]Reception
[edit]The book was immediately denounced by the Archbishop of Paris, and Rousseau was forced into exile from France.[1]
The 1917 Reader's Digest of Books described Emile as "unsystematic, sometimes impracticable, full of suggestion, ... [investing] the revolutionary ideas of its authors with his customary literary charm".[1]
Legacy
[edit]Many writers described the work as the single greatest on the topic of education (G. D. H. Cole[2] ...). The Reader’s Digest of Books called it "the most famous of pedagogic romances".[1]
The book became the foundation for 20th century progressive education pedagogy.[1] It was a stated influence on the ideas of Johann Bernhard Basedow, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, and Friedrich Fröbel.[1]
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[edit]External links
[edit] Media related to Émile, ou De l'éducation at Wikimedia Commons