Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Education Quotes

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Quote #7

I enjoyed my lessons while I was giving them, but I did not like being obliged to go to them, nor being tied to time. (5.1.21)

Rousseau doesn't sound like he's particularly jazzed about teaching, but he places a lot of value on education for himself.

Quote #8

[…] Mme de Menthon remarked one day to one of them that Mme de Warens was no more than a blue-stocking, that she had no taste, that she dressed badly and kept her bosom covered like a tradesman's wife. (5.1.25)

Mme de Menthon definitely means to insult Mama, but being a blue-stocking was a pretty cool indicator of a woman's high level of education in the eighteenth century.

Quote #9

If one has any taste for learning, however slight, the first thing one feels in applying oneself to it is the interconnexion of the sciences. (6.1.19)

Rousseau doesn't seem terribly interested in the sciences in his childhood, but he's always curious to learn something totally new.