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CHAPTER IV.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU
(1712-1778)
The limitation of the Lockean philosophy of education is the limitation
of his personality. His practical, utilitarian, and rationalistic
pedagogy may be good for making an efficient and respectable member
of society, but cannot meet the demands of the whole human soul.
Fortunately his pedagogy found its successor in just the right kind
of man. What Nature spared in this English gentleman she bestowed
luxuriantly upon the French artist.
In Rousseau we strike the prodigy of the pedagogic world. Such a
personality is rare, and Nature will probably not produce another
Rousseau. He was a man of no schooling and no discipline. His life
was, in a sense, a life of vagabondage and of abandonment. He was, in
the eye of Carlyle, “a morbid, excitable, spasmodic man,” whose motive
principle was “a mean hunger,” whose faults and miseries are summarized
by the single word, egoism. But it was to this egoist, this sensualist,
that Madame de Staël attributes the honor of having inspired women to
virtue as no other man ever did. And it was to this uneducated vagabond
that the Western world owes the revolution in its politics and thought.
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