Rousseau
Born June 28th, 1712
After his mother's death and his father's abandonment...

After his mother's death and his father's abandomnemt...
Rousseau became an apprentice to an engraver
After which he  left Geneva for Annecy, France
It was here that he met Mme. de Warens,
Who inspired him to convert to Catholicism
1742, Rousseau Goes to Paris to learn to be a musician and composer
After two years serving a post at a French embassy in Venice... 
He returns to France and meets a Linen-maid and has FIVE children...
All of whom were left at the Paris Orphanage
He wrote several of the articles on Music in Diderot and d'Alembert's "Encyclopedie"
And his Discourse on the Academy of Dijon's Question on the restoration of Science and Art having Purified morals, as well as his Opera "Le Devin du Village" were successful
He moved from one friend's home to another, each evicting him in turn due to quarreling that would break out and the affair with his friend's mistress.
It is also important to note that at this time populations were congregating in cities in a way that hadn't been seen since the fall of Rome 
And Rousseau's "Emile" contradicts this in a very strong way, in that it is his contention that in order to become properly educated, we must return to Nature. 
Book One
Everything is good as it leaves the hands of the Author of all things...
...everything degenerates in the hands of man.
- You "must choose between making a man or a citizen"
According to Rousseau:
- To make a citizen, you must "denature" or "suppress some of the 'natural' insticts 
Restates other Educational Reformers
     Locke's Hardening Program
     Anti-Swaddling
     Mother's nursing their own infants
     

Book Two
The Child Versus The World
- Education should be derived less from books and more from the initial interactions between the child and their world
- Go Fly a Kite
- Emphasis on the development of the senses and the ability to solve problems through inferences based on previous experience
Book Three
The Teenage Years
- It was at this time that the Child was believed to begin learning reason
Therefore, this was the proper time to begin formal education
- Physically fully Developed, yet uncorrupted
“Nature wants children to be children before being men. If we want to pervert this order, we shall produce pernicious fruits which will be immature and insipid and will not be long in rotting…Childhood has its ways of seeing, thinking, and feeling which are proper to it” (90)
The Child would essentially teach themselves, with a Tutor to merely guide and suggest a course of action making no demands 
“The masterpiece of a good education is to make a reasonable man, and they claim they raise a child by reason! This is to begin with the end, to want to make the product the instrument.” (89)
- The child should be guided by their own inclination, interests, etc...
If brought on too early, the childs ability to question and explore may be stifled by the responsibility of learning
Book Four
A Child's Religious Training
Not in the sense that we become the "noble savage" as is often described, though not by Rousseau, but merely in the sense that if we intend to be fully realized, we must remain unpolluted, in our natural form.
- A child will not iherently understand religious beliefs, will simply parrot it back
“it is a lesser evil to be unaware of the divinity than to offend it”
- Let the Child be drawn to believing
Book Five
Married Life
- “passive and weak” 
- “put up little resistance”
- “made specially to please a man”
A Woman should be:
“We have made a active and thinking being. It remains for us, in order to complete the man, only to make a loving and feeling being—that is to say, to perfect reason by sentiment” 
He eventually Died in 1778, with few friends, and many countries having banned his 
books and explelled him from their borders 
“One of the errors of our age is to use reason in too unadorned a form, as if men were all mind. In neglecting the language of signs that speak to the imagination, the most energetic of languages has been lost.” (321)
"a rule for the sentiments that one ought to follow in religious matters, but ...an example of the way one can reason with ones pupil in order not to diverge from the method I have tried to establish."