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Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?

Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Wise, Children, Taught
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1894). “Émile; Or, Concerning Education: Extracts Containing the Principal Elements of Pedagogy Found in the First Three Books”

The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Hurt, Children, Important
Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.139, eKitap Projesi

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Children, Philosophy, Men
Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.350, eKitap Projesi

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Children, Long, Stills

Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Nature, Children, Men

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Children, Philosophical, Learning

We can never put ourselves in the shoes of children; we cannot fathom their thoughts, we lend them ours; and always following ourown reasoning, we stuff their heads with extravagance and error.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Education, Children, Errors

A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret comparison, which continually tends to lessen his respect for those who control him, and with it their authority over him. If once he thinks there are grown-up people with no more sense than children the authority of age is destroyed and his education is ruined.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Children, Thinking, Hands
Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.53, eKitap Projesi

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Children, Philosophical, Order

The indifference of children towards meat is one proof that the taste for meat is unnatural; their preference is for vegetable foods...Beware of changing this natural taste and making children flesh-eaters, if not for their health's sake, for the sake of their character; for how can one explain away the fact that great meat-eaters are usually fiercer and more cruel than other men; this has been recognised at all times and in all places.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Children, Character, Men

You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Happiness, Running, Children

We cannot teach children the danger of telling lies to men without realising, on the man's part, the danger of telling lies to children. A single untruth on the part of the master will destroy the results of his education.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Children, Lying, Men
Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.349, eKitap Projesi

The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Children, Ease, Ruins
Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.144, eKitap Projesi

Men and women are made for each other, but their mutual dependence differs in degrees; man is dependent on woman through his desires; woman is dependent on man through her desires and also through her needs; he could do without her better than she can do without him. She cannot fulfill her purpose in life without his aid, without his goodwill, without his respect.....Nature herself has decreed that woman, both for herself and her children, should be at the mercy of man s judgment.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Children, Men, Desire
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile”, p.392, Courier Corporation

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Children, Sleep, Childhood
Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.144, eKitap Projesi

With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Wise, Children, Men
Jean Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile or Concerning Education”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Education, Children, Teaching

A blue-stocking is the scourge of her husband, children, friends, servants, and every one. [Fr., Une femme bel-esprit est le fleau de son mari, de ses enfants, de ses amis, de ses valets, et tout le monde.]

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Husband, Children, Women

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