Show B i itself that so ) t He’ at least he may know what you are states further that there is no talking about0 o substitute for actual experience because lessons which scholars learn from each other in a legeyard are one hundred times more useful to them than : i col- - all that will ever be told them in the classroom Rosseau urged the teacher of youth especially of children from I i I five to twelve years of age to: f i let M ! let them run and Even i them be taken out frolic after the and fall daily into the open down a hundred meadow There times a day °age of reason0 has been reached a reliance on i things or objects rather than books and ideas was important: i °In general never substitute the sign for the thing itself save when it is impossible to show the thing for the sign absorbs the interest of the child and forget the thing being xw represented 2J makes him Emile cu de L1 Education (translated by ¥ H Payne as Emile or Education According to Nature: New York: AppletonCentury-Crof- ts 1908) p 137 J Rousseau 3 Ibid t p flbid pp 5ibid p 57 43-- 141 44 |