The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation Rancire Jacques
The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation Rancire Jacques This extraordinary book can be read on several levels. Knowing no Flemish, Jacotot found himself able to teach in…
Specifikacia The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation Rancire Jacques
The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation Rancire Jacques
This extraordinary book can be read on several levels. Knowing no Flemish, Jacotot found himself able to teach in French to Flemish students who knew no French; knowledge, Jacotot concluded, was not necessary to teach, nor explication necessary to learn. Primarily, it is the story of Joseph Jacotot, an exiles French schoolteacher who discovered in 1818 an unconventional teaching method that spread panic throughout the learned community of Europe.
From this postulate, Jacotot devised a philosophy and a method for what he called "intellectual emancipation"-a method that would allow, for instance, illiterate parents to themselves teach their children how to read. The results of this unusual experiment in pedagogy led him to announce that all people were equally intelligent. The greater part of the book is devoted to a description and analysis of Jacotot's method, its premises, and (perhaps