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| • | Emile: Or, On Education is a book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, composed of five parts, and published in 1762. The subject of book is education, or specifically, "the art of training men" (Foreword). It remains to this day one of the most popular and widely read books on the subject of education. In Japan, the child development authority mandates all pre-school teachers to read Emile. The principle of Rousseau is as follows: "children are born good and it is the company they keep which corrupts."
The first four books concern the ideal education of a fictional boy named Emile (hence the title) and are ordered chronologically, covering the topics that would arise as the boy aged. The fifth and final book concerned the specific issues concerning the education of girls, using as an example a fictional girl named Sophie, raised and educated to be Emile's wife.
Aside from his theories on pedagogy, Emile also includes a character named Savoyard Vicar, widely known to have been the mouthpiece for Rousseau's religious ideas, and was written to be an example for the way in which religious matters should be discussed with young people. Savoyard Vicar is also believed to have combined the traits of two Savoyard priests whom Rousseau had known in his childhood: Abbé Gaime from Turin and Abbé Gâtier from Annecy.
Source: [wikipedia: emile, or education]
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