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Rousseau on Education

In Our Time: Philosophy

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What Is the Relationship Between Religion and Education?

Rousseau's life was turbulent. His father is forced, through poverty, to move from the upper town at geneva where his mother's house was. So he is tutored by a calvinist outside geneva, and then he becomes an apprentice engraver for three years. And that is miserable. What was a standard way of ting a child of his background at that time? Well, you would have a private tutor. The private tutor would more than likely be a clergyman. For example, a or ovesy teach somebody to be good, which is ovise rousseau's idea.

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