Pensées sur l'éducation
- Langue:
- anglais
- État:
- Œuvre complète
- Paternité:
- Écrite par l'auteur
- État du texte:
- Texte propre
- Étendue:
- ~120 000 mots · 561 passages
Citer cette œuvre
- APAJohn Locke. (n.d.). Pensées sur l'éducation. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/john-locke/some-thoughts-concerning-education-1902
- MLAJohn Locke. "Pensées sur l'éducation." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/john-locke/some-thoughts-concerning-education-1902.
- ChicagoJohn Locke. Pensées sur l'éducation. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/john-locke/some-thoughts-concerning-education-1902.
De quoi il s'agit
Le livre de Locke sur la manière d'élever un enfant, né des lettres qu'il écrivit à un ami au sujet de son fils et publié en 1693.
Contexte et histoire
C'est le texte qui mit en circulation l'image de l'esprit de l'enfant comme une page blanche, et il en tire la conséquence pratique : ce qu'il sera grand dépend presque tout entier de l'habitude, et l'éducation doit donc former le caractère avant de remplir la tête. De là ses recommandations concrètes, qui scandalisèrent et l'emportèrent : point de châtiment corporel sauf en cas d'obstination, point de récompenses en friandises, beaucoup d'exercice et de grand air, des lits durs, et surtout raisonner avec l'enfant comme avec une personne, car il en est une. Ce fut le manuel d'éducation le plus influent d'Europe pendant un siècle, et Rousseau écrivit l'« Émile » en le discutant.
Contexte éditorial, non une source citable : contrairement aux passages de l'œuvre, ces données ne peuvent pas être vérifiées dans le corpus.
Kw, being written several Years since for Your Sake^ and are no other than what You have already by You in my Letters, I have so little var^d any Things but only the I Order of what was sent you at different Times^ and on several , Occasions^ that the Reader will easily find^ in the Familiarity and Fashion of the StiUy that they were rather the private Conversation of two Friends, than a Discourse designed for publick View, The Importunity of Friends is the common Apology for Publications Men are afraid to own themselves forward to. But you know I can truly say, that if some^ who having heard of these Papers of mine, had not presid to ^ee them, and afterwards to have them printed, they had lain dormant still in that Privacy they were designed for. But those, whose Judgment I defer much tOj telling me, that they were per' Ixii • The Epistle Dedicatory. Ixii • The Epistle Dedicatory. suaded^ that this rough Draught of mine might he of some Use^ if made more fublick^ touched upon what will always be very prevalent with me : For I think it every Man^s indispensible Duty, to do all the Service he can to his Country; and I see not what Difference he puts between himself and his Caftlcy who lives without that Thought This Subject is of so great Concernment, and a right Way of Education is of so general Advantage, that did I find my Abilities answer my Wishes, I should not have needed Exhortations or Importunitiesfrom others. However, the Meanness of these Papers, and my fust Distrust of them, shall not keep me, by the Shame of doing so little, from contributing my Mite, when there is no more required of me than my throwing it into the publick Receptacle, And if there be any more of their Size and Notions, who liHd them so well, that they thought them worth printing, 1 may flatter myself they will not be lost Labour…