Emile, or On Education is a treatise on the nature of education and on the nature of man written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who considered it to be the "best and most important" of all his writings. Du
Title page of Rousseau's Emile
Frontispiece to Rousseau's Émile by De Launay for the 1782 edition. The original caption reads: "L'éducation de l'homme commence à sa naissance" ("A man's education begins at birth").
Title page from a German edition of Émile
The philosophy of education is the branch of applied philosophy that investigates the nature of education as well as its aims and problems. It also examines the concepts and presuppositions of educati
Inscribed herma of Plato (Berlin, Altes Museum)
Bust of Aristotle. Roman copy after a Greek bronze original by Lysippos from 330 BC.