TEN GREATEST HITSBest-Known Quotes from Rousseau's Emile. 1. Everything is good as it leaves the hands of the author of things, everything degenerates in the hands of man (para10). 2. You must choose between making a man and making a citizen, for you cannot do both at the same time (para22). 3. All wickedness comes from weakness. . . . Make [the child] strong and he will be good (para164). 4. Childhood has its ways of seeing, thinking, and feeling that are proper to it (para258). 5. There is no original perversity in the human heart (para267). 6. Dare I express here the greatest, the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to gain time but to lose it (para271). 7. The first education ought thus to be purely negative. It consists not at all in teaching virtue or truth, but in preserving the heart from vice and the mind from error (para272). 8. Put questions within [the child's] reach and let him solve them himself. Let him know nothing because you have told him, but because he has learned it for himself (para564). 9. It requires much art to prevent social man from becoming totally artificial (para1111). 10. Public opinion is the grave of a man's virtue and the throne of a woman's (para1278). Honorable Mention1. Education comes to us from nature, from men, or from things (para15). 2. It is in doing good that we become good (para886).
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