I had to do a PowerPoint presentation on Rousseau only a week ago. A complex, but brilliant man - he was all for the advancement education and championed the cause for children's rights, underlining their creative talents. It is therefore very much at odds with the fact he was a crap tutor and an abysmal father, who carted his kids to an orphanage and left them there (even if in later years he tried to track down where they were placed - bit late in the day).
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Date: 2014-11-13 08:42 am (UTC)