The Philosophers

and educational
Thinkers
GUESS WHO?
KNOWLEDGE IS
VIRTUES AND
IGNORANCE IS
VICE.
SOCRATES
“TABULAR RASA” OR
“BLANK SLATE”
THEORY- A Child is
born with a blank
mind.
JOHN LOCKE
RIGHT RELATIONSHIP
WITH GOD SHOULD
PRECEDE ALL KINDS
AND TYPES OF
EDUCATION.
JESUS CHRIST
SOCIAL
JUSTICE (Give
what is due to
whom it is due).
PLATO
“ TREAT OTHERS AS
YOU WISH THEM
TO TREAT YOU”
CONFUCIUS
MAN IS BY
NATURE GOOD
AND VIRTUOUS.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU( 1712-1778)
BIOGRAPHY
OF
ROUSSEAU
CHILDHOOD
• BORN IN GENEVA, SWITZERLAND ON JUNE
28,1712.
• MOTHER: SUSAN BERNARD ROUSSEAU
• HIS MOTHER DIED SHORTLY AFTER
CHILDBIRTH.
• FATHER:
• HIS FATHER WAS A POOR
WATCHMAKER AND A DANCE
MASTER.
• WIFE: THERESE LEVASSEUR
• WHEN HE WAS TEN HIS
FATHER RUN AWAY FROM
GENEVA.
• HE WAS THEN RAISED BY HIS
AUNT (HIS MOTHER’S SISTER).
SCHOOLING
• HE STOPPED TRADITIONAL SCHOOLING AT
THE AGE OF 12.
• HIS EDUCATION WAS INFORMAL
• HE WAS APPRENTICED AT THE AGE OF 13 TO
AN ENGRAVER AND SEVERAL TRADES.
• 1728 HE RUN AWAY FROM GENEVA AND
JOINED THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN FRANCE.
CAREER
• HE BECOME SECRETARY AND COMPANION TO
MADAME LOUISE DE WARENS. WHO HAD A
PROFOUND INFLUENCE ON ROUSSEAU’S LIFE
IN WRITINGS.
• LATER BECOME LOVER TO A WEALTHY
WIDOW WHO PROVIDED FOR HIS
EDUCATION IN THE CLASSICS AND MUSIC.
CAREER
• 1742 WHEN ROUSSEAU WENT TO
PARIS, WHERE HE EARNED HIS
LIVING AS A MUSIC TEACHER,
MUSIC COPYIST AND POLITICAL
SECRETARY.
• HE BECOME A CLOSE FRIEND OF
DENIS DIDEROT
FAMILY
• IN PARIS, IN 1745 HE TOOK A MISTRESS,
THERESE LE VASSEUR
• THEY HAVE FIVE CHILDREN.
• JEAN TOOK THEM ALL TO THE
FOUNDING HOSPITAL TO BE RAISED AS
CHILDREN.
• HE LATER MARRIED THERESE IN 1768.
PUBLISHED WORK
• WROTE AN ESSAY CALLED “ DISCOURSE
ON THE ARTS AND SCIENCES”
• HE PUBLISHED SEVERAL ESSAYS AND HAD
SOME DIFFERENT MISTRESSES IN THE
NEXT FEW YEARS.
• IN 1762 HE WROTE AND PUBLISHED HIS
MOST FAMOUS WORKS “SOCIAL
CONTRACT “ and “EMILE”.
SOCIAL CONTRACT
• Voluntary agreement among
people defining the relationship
of individuals with one another
and with government and by this
process forming a distinct
organized society.
PEOPLE ARE
ESSENTIALLY GOOD
BUT THEY BECOME
CORRUPTED BY THE
EVILS OF SOCIETY.
• BELIEVED THAT GOVERNMENT
SHOULD CREATE LAWS THAT
BENEFIT THE MAJORITY OF THE
PEOPLE.
• THIS CONCEPT IS DEMOCRACY.
His political philosophy
influennced the french
revolution and the
development of modern
politics and educational
thoughts.
EMILE
• ROUSSEAU WROTE THIS NOVEL
TO SHOW HIS BELIEFS ON
EDUCATION.
• IT CONSIST OF FIVE (5) BOOKS
AND THE DIFFERENT STAGES OF
LEARNING.
• Education begins at birth
• The child learns through the
senses
• There is a universal language .
• EMILE IS A FICTIONAL STUDENT
WHICH IS EDUCATED BY ROUSSEAU’S
METHODS.
• CHILD- Centered Educcation
• Learn by doing- active participation
• The importance of play “ let the child be a
child”
• Let him learn with his senses
• Emile reads his first book at 13.
• DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHILD
ACCORDING TO HIS NATURE.
• A MAN SHOULD LIVE A SIMPLE LIFE
• THE CHILD, THE IMPORTANT FACTOR IN
EDUCATION
• MAN IS BY NATURE GOOD AND
VIRTUOUS.
AFTER ROUSSEAU
• EMMANUEL KANT COME AFTER
ROUSSEAU. HIS THOUGHT THAT
MORAL LAW IS BASED ON
RATIONALITY, KENT INFLUENCE
ON ROUSSEAU’S POLITICAL
THOUGHT.
END OF REPORT!!!!
Prepared by:

IMELDA T. LUNGUB
Student

Submitted to:

NERISSA P. BATOON
EDUC. 2014 Professor