Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes About Childhood

Quotes about: Childhood

• Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does not sometimes look back regretfully on the age when laughter was ever on the lips and the heart free of care? Why steal from the little innocents the enjoyment of a time that passes all too quickly?

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Laughter, Teaching, Heart

• Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Nature, Children, Men

• We can never put ourselves in the shoes of children; we cannot fathom their thoughts, we lend them ours; and always following ourown reasoning, we stuff their heads with extravagance and error.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Education, Children, Errors

• Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Responsibility, Childhood, Wake Up

• Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Thinking, Childhood, Feelings

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1892). “Rousseau's Émile: Or, Treatise on Education”

• Childhood is the sleep of reason.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Children, Sleep, Childhood

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.144, eKitap Projesi

• Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips, and when the heart was ever at peace?

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Sports, Laughter, Heart

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile”, p.50, Courier Corporation

• Childhood is the sleep of reason.
  [Fr., L'enfance est le sommeil de la raison.]

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Sleep, Childhood, Reason

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