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Rousseau on Universal Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

T. A. Priest
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Extract

In The Revolution in Education Mortimer J. Adler and Milton Mayer devote some pages to the development of the modern concept of universal education. In this connection they make brief reference to the thought of J. J. Rousseau, in a passage which is so misleading that some comment is required.

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Research Article
Information
History of Education Quarterly , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , March 1961 , pp. 32 - 34
Copyright
Copyright © 1961, University of Pittsburgh Press 

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Notes

1. Adler, Mortimer J. and Mayer, Milton, The Revolution in Education, The Univ. of Chicago Press, 1958.Google Scholar

2. Ibid., p. 7.Google Scholar

3. Rousseau, J. J., Emile (Trans. Barbara Foxley), Everymans Library, No. 518, p. 20.Google Scholar

4. Emile, p. 131.Google Scholar

5. Rusk, R. R., Doctrines of the Great Educators, 2nd Ed. MacMillan and Co., 1955, p. 153.Google Scholar