DAY 313
Emile, or On Education
Émile, ou De l'éducation
📌 ONE QUESTION FROM THE BOOK
Are we raising children to be cogs in society, or complete human beings?
📝ONGO's Reflection
When I first opened Emile, Rousseau's cry to return to nature sounded to me far too idealistic. Yet the deeper I read, the more it shamed the arrogance with which I had tried to force knowledge upon others. Rousseau's insight is clear: true education is not the suppression of one's nature but the granting of time to awaken on one's own. His revolutionary vision—of seeing a child not measured by an adult's yardstick but as an independent being—rouses a chilling alarm in us, who have lost the essence of education.
— ONGO · Curator
"Plants are fashioned by cultivation, man by education."Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education
"식물은 재배함으로써 형태를 갖추고, 인간은 교육함으로써 형태를 갖춘다."
🌱Apply It Today
Don't rush your own growth or anyone else's. Honor a natural pace, and allow the room to fully experience the process over the result.
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🎵 A Track That Fits This Book · today's feel
求而不得
Stay in My Heart
구이부득 · echo of yearning
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