Robert ZaretskyRousseau identified reason as the disease for which it pretended to be the cure.
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In 1763, Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote Emile: or, On Education. In it, he outlined a more child-centered and Romantic approach to education. He argued that children should be more independent and less socialized. Rousseau believed that people were naturally good and capable of self-government; he believed this because he believed people were born with some measure of reason and that reason was the disease that “pretended” to cure.
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