He wrote: ‘Everything is good when it leaves the hands of the Creator everything degenerates in the hands of man.’ People were jealous and vain. Society, on the other hand, he considered to be problematic. He believed that humans, in their natural state, were free and good from birth. Rousseau was convinced that this method of educating children didn’t raise them to be truly useful people. There were lots of rules and regulations and if they broke one, they were punished. They had to sit still for hours at a time while their private tutor taught them how to read, write and do sums. They wore pretty clothes and learned the rules of etiquette, as well as how to curtsey politely, play piano and speak foreign languages. There, children were treated like little adults. He lived in Geneva first and then later in Paris for a long time. Jean-Jacques Rousseau grew up in a middle-class family, in 18th-century Europe. Artikeltext: Children Treated Like Little Adults Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck, Girl in a Blue Dress, 1641. Children treated like little adults: this is exactly what Rousseau didn’t want.
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