Emile: Or On Education Paperback – June 29, 1979

This was a fun book to read. It gave you insight into the way Rousseau and the people of the time thought about children, but also how they lived their lives. The book is divided into chapters that cover different aspects of life. First infancy, childhood, preadolescence and finally adolescence. The last chapter is about how to raise girls but I think Rousseau rushed that one. The book is full of philosophical insights on children and their ages as well as fun stories about Rousseau and Emile. Some of the stories are really funny but not meant to be (like taking an infant to an artillery shooting range to get him immune to load noises). Nevertheless after all these years the book still offers plenty of child rearing advice that is useful today (like let kids go outside and play, get exercise and scrap their knees once in a while rather than coddle them).

The book, Emile, arrived on time and in very good condition. Thanks!

Rousseau has an amazing capacity for rapid thought, and digresses quite often into interesting subjects while revealing the education of Emile.

Melbourne University rated this book amongst the 10 most important books, and has included it in a 'book-club' run at the University for those interested into looking into it more deeply

Great book to read

Gave to my daughter's & son-in-laws for a possible reference-good pointers in parenthood!

The book got here extreamly fast which is very supprising because I'm not stationed in the U.S. I will read this book dilligently as my wife has this book in Korean.

I got this book really cheap and it was in very good state!