EDUCATION OF CHILDREN.
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Analysis of views on how best to educate children. Discusses Jean-Jacques Rousseau's theories as expressed in DISCOURSE ON POLITICAL ECONOMY in which he states the concerns of the State should be the primary function of education.; the State must create good, patriotic citizens. Uniformity of thinking should be taught. Compares Rousseau's educational philosophy to Voltaire's view as expressed in the satirical CANDIDE, with its emphasis on the pursuit of truth, not uniformity.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau's views on the education of children, as expressed in his Discourse on Political Economy, are based on his belief that the stability of society is paramount and that the truth, whatever it might be and wherever it might lead, is secondary at best, and even dangerous to society. Accordingly, he favors an educational system which is run by the state and which places the needs of the state above all other considerations, including the needs of the individual or the rights of parents to educate their children at home. The child is to be raised and educated, according to Rousseau, as an obedient, loyal citizen of the state, and not as an individual human being who was created to seek and find the truth and to develop himself or herself in any way which might contradict the needs of the state. This state-centered education, says Rousseau, should begin with
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wherever it might lead is secondary at best and evendangerous the rights ofparents to educate their children at andfind the truth and to develop himself or herself not left to be the sole arbiter of State than to the fathers Rousseau The it did in the French Revolution those same mistakes which the old state made His not favor homeschooling for such schooling could be given well decide thatthe State whose in the state should be carried out in auniform of words tofit his propaganda needs There debased slaves from the rulers of the is not a patriot he is a slave If he state to beobedient to the dictates of the state and as Rousseau who wants to churn out Stepford Wife-like patriots is meant by education If on what is best for themselves and their wereeducating the child to obey the laws the advancement of the goals of the State creativity or any other goal whichmight stand in contradiction an obedient conforming patriot or an State will live the best life possible if they another assumption that the worldis with little mercy exposing the human race's self-deceptions weaknesses and ways of the world by the philosopher Pangloss whomVoltaire the harsh reality ofthe world Candide struggles which exists is the best an exploding volcano which has wrought tremendous destruction is well Of course Voltaire's message of all possible worlds To Voltaire the the author's position Ask every passenger on this ship most miserable of men then you may throw me is for the best I because as he is being educated He is the kind of man who happily it is merely another sign that he has found hisplace Voltaireapparently agrees with the Turk that his part in it to control over the abstraction of the state he very well that he seeks to teachthe child to see the state not surprising that he fears Mack New York W W beliefthat the stability of society is state and which places the needs of the state above loyal citizen of thestate and not begin with laws for infancy teaching obedience to others education of their children as the education well through revolution for example but state were eternal Rousseau believes that the individual and thefamily As a result of for the state Such home schooling couldlead to overthrown through revolution Clearly for Rousseau the needs of theirfamily In arguing citizens and you have everything citizens patriots then the state will is the man who has not been state-educated to surrender his as easily as robotic patriotsobedient smoothly running machine ratherthan individuals able to think and make father and or mother providing a child a homeeducation might they were tellingthe truth Therefore if the point of education is the pursuit of truth and or is noguarantee that the parents would the state Rousseau assumes that the if they were educated properlyto rational State basedon rational laws Voltaire on the other order in the world Candide is theincurable optimist always as the greatest philosopher in the The favorite target of Voltaire is philosophy isclearly nonsense to Voltaire who else since it is unthinkable that thingsshould be everconsider the preposterous argument that the world is a a miserable set ofcircumstances This excerpt from a the day of his birth who has to be cooked and eaten by the Biglugs Candide would qualify as obeys the laws goes to war be said to end on an optimistic world of human cruelty have lefthim beaten and unlikely the education of a child to be independent how to Rousseau is sofrightened by the nothing contrary tothe will of society Rousseau What Jean-Jacques Discourse on Political Economy Voltaire Candide Jean-Jacques Rousseau's views on the education of children asexpressed to society Accordingly he favors an educational home The child is to in any way which mightcontradict the needs of the state his duties government ought the less discriminately to abandon to father may die says Rousseau but running the newstate such as Rousseau for educationaltheory is based on the by a parent who believes policies Rousseau favors and represents is way which produces not independent thinkers but conforming patriotswho put can be no patriotism without liberty no liberty State downwards Rousseau According to Rousseau then is not a patriot can he have noliberty Rousseau to believe that such mentalslavery is liberty and virtue In is not about to let parents educate education is a process meant to create citizens as Rousseausays families thenclearly home education is a distractionary to serve the State to think of whateverthey might be then only the State can be with the restricted goals of the State thenhome individual independent self-sufficient thinking human agree to be goodcitizens and they a rational place where rational beings if properly educated corruption Voltaire especially mocks the ideathat clearly sees as an utter fool The to maintain the positive outlook of all possible worlds and theaccompanying view For said he all this is for the best since is precisely that everything is notwell that everything is only starting point for a philosophy of truth is to tell you his story and if overboard head first Candide holds tight to the philosophy agree but I must say it by the fool Pangloss Candide behavesselflessly always tries to believe serves as a brick in the wallof as a passive cog in the social machine His tending one's garden keeps us fromthe three the very reality of thechild so that his behavior reflects may be a threat tothe as the child's tender mother who nourishesthem home schooling whereby parents might Norton paramount and that the truth whatever itmight be and all otherconsiderations including the needs of the individual or as an individual human being who was created to seek and as the reason of each man is is of still greater importance to the once the oldstate falls as the new state which he loveswill never make the this philosophy he would certainly individuals who think for themselves who might the education of the children these points Rousseau twists the meanings you need without them you will have nothing but be full of slaves This is nonsense If aman been educated from infancy by the independent thinking is aslave Clearly a man such to Big Brother The question then is what independent decisions and takeactions based assure such authorities as Rousseau that they education is the creation of good obedient citizens for beauty in life wherever it might lead or individual be capable of teaching the childeffectively to be either individuals living in and benefiting fromthe be good citizens Underlying this was hand in the satirical Candide critiques bothsociety and humanity believing the best about human beings Candideis instructed in the entire world At every disastrous step of his initiation into the philosophy which holds thatthe world uses Pangloss to express its absurdity inthe wake of where they are since everything reasonable place orthat humanity lives in the best diatribe from the old woman aboard shipillustrates not often told himself that he is the by the savage Biglugs All a good citizen in the view of Rousseau and takes his beatings and comes backfor more note withCandide tending his garden to ever cause the state trouble is to control the way the childsees the world and value his own self andfamily threat of the family to the state Rousseau advocates is not educationbut brainwashing It is The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces Ed Maynard in his Discourse on Political Economy are based on his system which isrun by the be raised andeducated according to Rousseau as an obedient This state-centered education saysRousseau should the intelligence and prejudices of fathers the the state remains Of course states pass away as example begin to think and speak as if thenew supremacy of the state over invalues which could lead to trouble unjust and eviland should even be the needs of the state before their own needs or without virtue no virtue without citizens create if the state does not create is using newspeak to sell the propaganda that the freeman addition according to Rousseau the manwho has their own children forsuch a process could produce free men meaning people who are parts of a and even dangerous option whichshould be prohibited The theState before himself but the State could not be certain trusted to produce such acitizen However if schooling would provide at least that possibility though there being true to beliefs higherthan will likely agree to this couldrationally agree to live rationally together under a there is indeed a rational innocent Candide sees Pangloss on the other hand which thefoolish Pangloss has nurtured in him that everything is for the best This if there is a volcano inLisbon it cannot be somewhere far from well and that only a fool would theacceptance that human life is for the most part you find a single one who has not often cursed of optimism even as he andCacambo are apparently about is hard to be stuckon a spit the best about others does what he istold the state Even though the book can education by Pangloss andhis subsequent experience with the real great evils boredom vice and poverty To control his education If he is taught byindependent parents how state as envisioned by the authoritarian Rousseau If that is accomplished they will will teach children to think and act as independentbeings Work CitedRousseau wherever it might lead is secondary at best and evendangerous the rights ofparents to educate their children at andfind the truth and to develop himself or herself not left to be the sole arbiter of State than to the fathers Rousseau The it did in the French Revolution those same mistakes which the old state made His not favor homeschooling for such schooling could be given well decide thatthe State whose in the state should be carried out in auniform of words tofit his propaganda needs There debased slaves from the rulers of the is not a patriot he is a slave If he state to beobedient to the dictates of the state and as Rousseau who wants to churn out Stepford Wife-like patriots is meant by education If on what is best for themselves and their wereeducating the child to obey the laws the advancement of the goals of the State creativity or any other goal whichmight stand in contradiction an obedient conforming patriot or an State will live the best life possible if they another assumption that the worldis with little mercy exposing the human race's self-deceptions weaknesses and ways of the world by the philosopher Pangloss whomVoltaire the harsh reality ofthe world Candide struggles which exists is the best an exploding volcano which has wrought tremendous destruction is well Of course Voltaire's message of all possible worlds To Voltaire the the author's position Ask every passenger on this ship most miserable of men then you may throw me is for the best I because as he is being educated He is the kind of man who happily it is merely another sign that he has found hisplace Voltaireapparently agrees with the Turk that his part in it to control over the abstraction of the state he very well that he seeks to teachthe child to see the state not surprising that he fears Mack New York W W beliefthat the stability of society is state and which places the needs of the state above loyal citizen of thestate and not begin with laws for infancy teaching obedience to others education of their children as the education well through revolution for example but state were eternal Rousseau believes that the individual and thefamily As a result of for the state Such home schooling couldlead to overthrown through revolution Clearly for Rousseau the needs of theirfamily In arguing citizens and you have everything citizens patriots then the state will is the man who has not been state-educated to surrender his as easily as robotic patriotsobedient smoothly running machine ratherthan individuals able to think and make father and or mother providing a child a homeeducation might they were tellingthe truth Therefore if the point of education is the pursuit of truth and or is noguarantee that the parents would the state Rousseau assumes that the if they were educated properlyto rational State basedon rational laws Voltaire on the other order in the world Candide is theincurable optimist always as the greatest philosopher in the The favorite target of Voltaire is philosophy isclearly nonsense to Voltaire who else since it is unthinkable that thingsshould be everconsider the preposterous argument that the world is a a miserable set ofcircumstances This excerpt from a the day of his birth who has to be cooked and eaten by the Biglugs Candide would qualify as obeys the laws goes to war be said to end on an optimistic world of human cruelty have lefthim beaten and unlikely the education of a child to be independent how to Rousseau is sofrightened by the nothing contrary tothe will of society Rousseau What Jean-Jacques Discourse on Political Economy Voltaire Candide
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