...corruption in civic and social life, the opening words of his Emile may well have seemed literally true : " Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the...Nature, but everything degenerates in the hands of man." This sentence epitomizes Rousseau's philosophy of education. Man perverts and spoils everything he...

...of all things, everything is good; in the hands of man everything degenerates. Man obliges one soil to nourish the productions of another, one tree to...bear the fruits of another; he mingles and confounds climates, elements, seasons; he mutilates his dog, his horse, his slave. He overturns everything, disfigures...

...the Emile icy,' Rousseau starts the first book with a re-statement 3 of his basal principle that " everything is good as it comes ?^ from the hands of the Author of Nature; but everything a * degenerates in the hands of man." After elaborating this, he shows that we are educated by "three...

...the idea of " education according to nature." Ordinarily the first sentence of the first chapter, " Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the author of nature ; everything degenerates in the hands of man," is chosen as the keynote of the book. As a corollary...

...The opening sentence of the Emile contains the keynote to Rousseau's theory of education. He says : "Everything is good as it comes from the hands of...; but everything degenerates in the hands of man." This conception makes childho'od sacred. The child is originally good. It must be protected from the...

...need any other guide than himself." He begins the work with a restatement of his basal principle that "everything is good as it comes from the hands of...Nature; but everything degenerates in the hands of man." After elaborating this, he shows that we are educated by "three kinds of teachers — nature, man,...

...was the last of the encyclopaedists, and even he had had 1 For instance, Rousseau begins his Emile: "Everything is good as it comes from the hands of...; but everything degenerates in the hands of man." It is interesting to note that Vives had said: "All things in this world as they were made by God are...

...need any other guide than himself." He begins the work with, a restatement of his basal principle that "everything is good as it comes from the hands of...Nature; but everything degenerates in the hands of man." After elaborating this, he shows that we are educated by "three kinds of teachers — nature, man,...

...we make of this development and what we learn through our environment. Starting with the idea that "Everything is good as it comes from the hands of...but everything degenerates in the hands of man," he developed by successive stages the education of Emile. In order to make his theory a plausible one,...

...before it, is the parting of the ways. The oft-quoted opening sentence of Rousseau's Emile reads " Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the...Nature ; but everything degenerates in the hands of man ". That points to the other route. Froebel's remarks on the subject are very judicious and correspond...