mansplaining education when you abandon your five children is a lil stupid

Honestly, I can't say it was great but I also can't say I didn't like it at all. There were very interesting ideas and principes! It was just all blurred in a amount of blabla and unusefull informations. And it was very mysoginist. But apart from that, I liked it

la dernière partie gâche l'entièreté du livre pour moi

Way too long; many interesting points on how to raise a child, getting back to nature and learning from the world instead of books; talked way too much shit about women for my liking.

A dense read, this one took me a while to finish. There are bits of wisdom scattered throughout, some interesting points and surprisingly modern opinions here and there. But on the whole, this isn't something I would recommend to anyone who doesn't have a solid interest in French history, philosophy, or pedagogy.

Additionally, Rousseau's opinions on women are bizarrely contradictory. In some moments he sounds progressive for his time, at other points sexist. He frequently uses the term "savages", and at one point equates women with crippled men.

The bottom line is, this is not a novel. It is a long-winded essay that frequently goes on tangents and is impossible not to skim in some sections.

I struggled, I struggled some more, I finished.

I believe I would despise him if we lived in the same century.

I believe I would despise him if we lived in the same century.