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How Did The Enlightenment Was Big On Education

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Like you said, the Enlightenment was big on education. Many of the enlightened thinkers in fact believed that education was a necessary base to one becoming enlightened. And like you mentioned, many were critical of organized religion having the hold that it did on education. Enlightened thinker, Jean-Jacques Rousseau advocated against the "traditional education," one that placed emphasis on discipline and punishment, but rather introduced the new thought of teaching to a child's "natural interests and goodness." He maintained that "nature and experience were better guides to independent thinking and practical knowledge" (pg. 445). John Locke, well-respected English philosopher, promoted similar thinking, "What we become, depends solely on
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