Jean Jaques Rousseau
...typical of his time and long afterwards. Rousseau believes strongly in the meaning of education, plants are fashioned be cultivation, men by education. Rousseau states that we are born capable of sensation and from birth are affected in diverse ways by the objects around us. Rousseau was a big believer that their was a very little difference between the sexes. He claims that in everything that does not relate to sex, the woman is as the man: they are alike in organs needs and capacities. Rousseau has much of a fasination with the creation of man and woman he states " We cannot but marvel that nature has been able to create two beings so much alike with constitutions so different" P.113 Prg.2 Rousseau believed strongly that men were superior to woman, he also believed that a womans purpose in life was to please man. Rousseau also has a few ideas of his own with respect to education. He claimed that if one wants right guidence, always follow the leadings of nature. Everything that characterizes sex should be respected as established by nature. Rousseau also claimed in some of his famous words of wisdom that supposedly the more womanly a woman is, the better. Plus whenever a woman excercises her own proper powers she gains by it. Roussea...