Rousseau created an imaginary child named Emile and became his tutor. This was due to the Fourth Book, Confessions of a Savoyard Priest. The Archbishop of Paris, Christophe de Beaumont (1703-1781), saw in it a dangerous, mischievous work, and gave himself the trouble of writing a long encyclical letter in order to point out the book to the reprobation of the faithful. Some of his biographers relate the story that when the Academy of Dijon, in 1749, offered a prize for an essay on the question whether the progress of the arts and sciences has tended to the purification of morals and manners, he followed the suggestion of Diderot, who reminded him of the greater notoriety which he could gain by advocating the negative side. The significance of Rousseau in education as well as in politics must be found in his revolutionary attitude toward established institutions. Read in English by Anne Gnomesb Craig CampbellĮmile, or On Education or Émile, or Treatise on Education (French: Émile, ou De l’éducation) was published in 1762 in French and German and in 1763 in English. LibriVox recording of Èmile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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