Who can remember this Rousseau quote?
If I could paraphrase it, it goes something like “each lesson introduced too early plant a seed of hatred towards the object of the lesson.” But it’s much, much more poetic than that. Anyone remember it?
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Sounds like things said many times in Emile: Or, On Education (1762) but I can’t find it specifically.
Some other quotes around and about the subject:
“I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.”
“We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.”
“The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.”
French : Tout est bien sortant des mains de l’Auteur des choses , tout dégénère entre les mains de l’homme .
English : Everything is good as it leaves the hands of the author of things , everything degenerates in the hands of man .
@anartist The ‘Author’ , which means the ‘Creator’, which means ‘God’ .
But it is opened for any interpretations I guess (=
I’m guessing it comes from Emilie, but I haven’t been able to pin it down.
However, it’s on google books with a search function so if you have the right keywords you might locate it.
Emile – google books (search function on the left)
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