SOAN 2111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Supreme Intelligence, Philosophes, Swaddling
8 Dec 2014
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Mothers nursing their own babies became fashionable among enlightened parents. A la jean-jacques ( in the rousseau manner . Maintains natural differences between the sexes requires they be educated differently. Rousseau"s belief that the human being is naturally good. The essay directed to the good mother who thinks for herself and wishes to shield her child from the crippling effects of social convention. Mother"s role in child rearing is fundamental since child"s earliest education is most. Main duty of motherhood; there is no substitute for a mother"s love, which a child needs important and woman"s work even more than her milk: swaddling is like imprisonment. Real teacher as the child grows and develops is the father. Freedom of movement is essential, for that is how the child the difference between self and not-self. Self-evident that when our natural tendencies are unhampered by human prejudices and institutions, children and adults alike fully enjoy their liberty.
