In general, it seems most appropriate to draw an understanding off of both schools of interpretation to form a cohesive idea about what the text meant then and how elements of it can be very pertinent to educational theory today. There are various modern interpretations that can be gleaned from Rousseau’s treatise on education in Emile and just as many that are based upon historical knowledge of the period during which he wrote the book. It is also at this late point that he should find a woman who completes him, which is illustrated by the example of Sophie. The last section of essays in Emile discusses development and addresses the ages of fifteen and up when the young child grows into a man and must learn to make his own way based on the careful instruction he has been given. The second section addresses the development of a young person from the ages of twelve to fifteen, which is a time when reason begins to take hold and the child, especially with a proper apprenticeship, begins to take his first steps toward manhood. The first section of essays deals with the child’s development until about the age of twelve when he is still living very much like an animal and needs to have his natural tendency toward understanding brought forth.
Emile by Jean Jacques Rousseau is conveniently broken up into 5 sections of narrative and essays, each of which deals with either a particular age group or time in a young person’s life. While this is still technically fiction, the style and tone is didactic and the narrator often slips off into long diatribes about his own past as well his feelings about society, religion, and moral matters. The culmination of these two statements on learning is the marriage of Emile and Sophie, a girl who was raised according to Rousseau’s model of rearing for young women. Much of Emile is dedicated to the raising of a young man but the last section is devoted to the education of girls. In true form to the ideas put forth during the Enlightenment, Emile grows up in a state of nature and learns by Rousseau’s methods which emphasize stages of learning and development and processes of natural inquiry. To offer a short summary of Emile, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau under the careful guidance of his master it is important to recognize the philosophical and creative movement of the Enlightenment that this work spawned from. In Emile, Rousseau and his fictitious account on properly raising a young boy to become a man, several theories about education are discussed and put into practice into the boy’s life.
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