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    <body><![CDATA[this book is difficult to understand and hence easy to dismiss. many of the other reviews bear witness to this in the most immediate way.  emile is not an instructional manual on how to educate a child, nor is it a misogynistic tract that insists on the inferiority of women.  these are fatuous and i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5133197">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Please read the last chapter first. If you can accept Rousseau at his most offensive, then maybe you should continue with the rest of the book. Personally, I'm enough of a feminist that I cannot stand this work. I have heard too much praise for this work by so many who haven't finished it (i.e. read...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3284586">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[For the most part, Rousseau kept me interested by his language (which he uses very thoughtfully and precisely) and by his extreme ideas and scenarios of a child's education/tutorship. Rousseau shows his creativity by analyzing everything down to the smallest detail and this perspective gave me enoug...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22616803">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If being an uneducated, ignorant, house-slave who lives to serve her lord and masters (aka her husband and children) comes so naturally to women, then why does Rousseau keep insisting that women need to be taught and indoctrinated with this &quot;natural desire&quot;? <br/><br/>While I am by no me...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24908323">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book many years ago in French lit and felt it to be full of profound new thoughts.  I recently realized I had never read it in translation and got an English copy.  My translation seems to be very bad - a 19th century translation I got cheap.  I don't recommend the prometheus books 'grea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61705294">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If only there was room in his world for little girls to be educated...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There are maybe 7 people in the world who understand this treatise on education, I don't think I am one of them yet. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A deceptively simple text. Rousseau has distanced himself from the Social Contract and the concept of the noble savage here, and has decided to illustrate the principles of an education that will bring about `natural man.' Emile is his guinea pig, whom he allows to grow on his own accord. His govern...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34781582">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Terrific book on natural education that I was introduced to by my brother with he attended Columbia School of Education. Talks a lot about education through feeling the results of your actions, and developing realistic perception. I believe Rousseau is in the evolutionary line leading to Montessori,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77583354">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is unbelievable... absolutely amazing.<br/><br/>&quot;In the fields the children, scattered, removed from the father, from the mother, and from other children, get practice in making themselves understood at a distance and in measuring the strength of their voices according to the space ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72132628">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In a course I took, the professor once said that a man had written Rousseau 10 years after he wrote Emile and said that he raised his son identically to how Rousseau raised imaginary Emile.  Rousseau wrote back &quot;I feel sorry for you, but more sorry for your son.&quot;  This book knocked me on m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64302449">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't be fair to this book since I dislike Rousseau so intensely. Anyone who has read about him and his life will understand.  But I don't agree with his educational philosophy and I don't like when fiction is used solely to hammer in someone's philosophy]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, in fact I am reading it in French. It's such a wide-ranging book, fundamental to the way modern people see so many things, beginning with childhood and education, that it's hard to summarize what one learns from it. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read a very abridged version but still managed to get a flavor for this book as a whole. <br/><br/>There are passages throughout the book about the nature of man, woman, God, and education I loved and fully agree with. Both the section on Emile and Sophie contained some deep truth but along side...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63288360">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great Book. Rousseaus ideas on solitary education are interesting. Its easy to see the 16th century perspective in his outline of gender roles and educational differences among the sexes]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Probably my favorite book. I know it sounds a little pompous to say a philosophical treatise is your favorite book, but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't. <br/>I've read different parts of this one several times since reading it the first time for a Philosophy class in college. It really makes you t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20211155">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i don't know what to think right now. It's age makes it inevitably cryptic...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Firstly, it is a belief of mine that in order to appreciate works of philosophy, you don't have to agree with them.  _Emile_ is a model of what education *could be* in a world in which each child receives a lifelong tutor, almost at birth.  Is it directly applicable at all today?  For the most part,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7586748">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Emile does get soupy and so far as go thrills Emile's no Confession, but for its influence on Pestalozzi, Froebel, Herbart, Frichte or even Dewey worth its quick read. Though largely ignored and occasionally discredited through the nineteenth century for his impracticality (his case for child as the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4795975">more...</a>]]></body>
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