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Utopia pedagógica |
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Émile
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“Proposez ce qui est faisable, ne cesse-t-on de me répéter. C’est comme Si l’on me disait : Proposez de faire ce qu’on fait ; ou du moins proposez quelque bien qui s’allie avec le mal existant. Un tel projet, sur certaines matières, est beaucoup plus chimérique que les miens ; car, dans cet alliage, le bien se gâte, et le mal ne se guérit pas. J’aimerais mieux suivre en tout la pratique établie, que d’en prendre une bonne à demi ; il y aurait moins de contradiction dans l’homme ; il ne peut tendre à la fois à deux buts opposés. Pères et mères, ce qui est faisable est ce que vous voulez faire. Dois-je répondre de votre volonté?” |
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Pestalozzi Lienhard und Gertrud |
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Madamme
Genlis Adèle
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Goethe Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre
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| “Whether it be that of punishing the incorrigible, guarding the insane, reforming the vicious, confining the suspected, employing the idle, maintaining the helpless, curing the sick, instructing the willing in any branch of industry, or training the rising race in the path of education: in a word, whether it be applied to the purposes of perpetual prisons in the room of death, or prisons for confinement before trial, or penitentiary-houses, or houses of correction, or work-houses, or manufactories, or mad-houses, or hospitals, or schools. It is obvious that, in all these instances, the more constantly the persons to be inspected are under the eyes of the persons who should inspect them, the more perfectly will the purpose X of the establishment have been attained. Ideal perfection, if that were the object, would require that each person should actually be in that predicament, during every instant of time. This being impossible, the next thing to be wished for is, that, at every instant, seeing reason to believe as much, and not being able to satisfy himself to the contrary, he should conceive himself to be so. This point, you will immediately see, is most completely secured by my brother's plan; and, I think, it will appear equally manifest, that it cannot be compassed by any other, or to speak more properly, that if it be compassed by any other, it can only be in proportion as such other may approach to this”. |