EMILE, OR ON EDUCATION: A PSYCHOPEDAGOGICAL APPROACH TO ROUSSEAU'S WORK.

Abstract

Like a plant, each human being has a root from which derives that knowledge that arises and grows little by little until it is founded in the deepest part of our being. As thinking beings, we know that the origin starts from a whole and at the same time a whole starts from an origin; then, this small seed called reason arises within us that sprouts in each person as something innate, something that is there and prevails inert to develop with each life lesson. This nature that shapes us must be molded in each step we take, and thus each decision that is made must mean progress for man. Like a blank page, our memory remains empty unless something is marked on it, which is why, through experience, man embarks on a path that introduces him to the world of knowledge, a world that exposes him to understand what surrounds him and discover new things. However, the knowledge that is acquired should not remain as something fleeting, it should be maintained and grow as another root. And so it is that the human being takes the route of "learning", which is nothing more than a way of understanding the world and putting into practice what we know through the interaction of reason and experience.