Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Tender Perspectives Towards Children

The child is naive, pure hearted and simple in nature. The behaviour of a child is like his heart pure, true and simple. Rousseau’s gentle attitude towards child says that the child should be considered and accepted as a child, in spite of a mini adult. A child is not an adult, so he should not be judged on the standards of an adult. Rousseau insists to keep the child away from harmful social influences. In order to protect the child’s natural self from harm, it is necessary that he comes into contact with nature and attains his natural self. Children have innate curiosity. Child needs to learn from his own experiences and their consequences. The child’s eagerness develops investigative ability in him to use new things and objects. Rousseau is in favour of taking education according to child’s efforts and interests. His naturalistic views emphasise to give complete freedom to the child because only by living in lap of nature and gaining freedom, child can do his all-round development

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