Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes About Birth

Quotes about: Birth

• Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Educational, Stupid, Men

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.38, Basic Books

• We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Birthday, Education, Men

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.17, eKitap Projesi

• Education is either from nature, from man or from things. The developing of our faculties and organs is the education of nature; that of man is the application we learn to make of this very developing; and that of things is the experience we acquire in regard to the different objects by which we are affected. All that we have not at our birth, and that we stand in need of at the years of maturity, is the gift of education.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Inspirational, Education, Maturity

• From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live; and, as at the instant of birth we partake of the rights of citizenship, that instant ought to be the beginning of the exercise of our duty.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Exercise, Men, Rights

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1973). “The social contract: and, Discourses”, Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd

• We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Birth, Speak

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.340, eKitap Projesi

• Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Needs, Birth, Given

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.38, Basic Books

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