Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 – 1778)
Franco-Swiss philosopher of Enlightenment whose political ideas influenced the French Revolution, the development of socialist theory, and the growth of nationalism.
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all.
[M]y position has nothing in common with a Rousseauistic optimism about human "nature.” […] Rousseau's pedagogy is profoundly manipulative. This does not always seem to be recognized by educators, but it has been convincingly demonstrated and documented.
Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they.
We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.