nature and education
... Rousseau writes in his book that education comes three sources, nature, from man, and from things. Of these three things Rousseau says the most important factor in education is a result of “nature”. Rousseau states in his book that education exists to develop a sense of freedom in the world, and that “God makes all things good”. ... The three factors that education comes from are very important to Rousseau. Rousseau believes that nature is the most important factor followed by man and things. He says that nature is most important to us because nature is something that we have absolutely no control over. Because God gives nature to us, then it has to be right. Man is not as important to us as nature because God made man, and man meddles around with things and they become evil, “…he will have nothing as nature made it, not even man himself, who must learn his paces like a saddle horse, and be shaped to his master’s taste like the trees in his garden”. (P5) “Things” is also not quite as important to us as nature. Social conditions we are brought into such as prejudice and authority are conditions that effect our education.