The nature of the child and free education. The development of the personality of the child

Pedagogical ideas of the great French humanist J.-J. Rousseau (1712-1778) acquired a qualitatively new form in modern education systems performed by various philosophical movements: existentialist pedagogy, a humanistic psychological school, where appeal to the personality of a child is a fundamental link. Like a plant nourished by means of processing, a person is transformed in the process of education. Rousseau identifies three sources and three means of education of personality, namely: nature, people and experience. Thus, the internal development of human inclinations is the education received from nature, to teach how to use this development - education on the part of people, and the acquisition of their own experience, which gives the perception of reality, is education from things.
Compiled by A. N. Dzhurinsky