g for school. From ages 7-21, the child should be in formal schooling learning literature, music, and gymnastics. Aristotle also believed education was a state matter. He believed the state should determine whom a man should marry; so desirable offspring would be assured. The state should use education in order to develop citizens, who could defend and make the state better 2. What's Bacon and Locke's view? How does it compare with Rousseau?Bacon pointed out the need for "clear and accurate thinking, showing that any mastery of the world in which man lived was dependent upon careful understanding of the facts of the world." He thought that the world needed to get rid of all prejudices. As society accumulates more knowledge, it should pass this on to the young through schools. Then the young can continue where their elders left off. He said that education was a passing on of the knowledge of the past, the accumulated knowledge of society, to the young. Locke wanted an ideal English gentleman of breeding and wisdom. He sought to a more practical and efficient type of education. He believed the human soul at power was a tablet that could receive impressions. He saw education as the process of learning through experience with this outside world. His ideal was a sound mind in a sound body. Locke advocated exercise. He believed a child should be exposed to as much of the world as possible. The aim of education should be an individual who knew how to get along with his fellow people, who knew about the world, and who was knowledgeable. Rousseau had a kind of protective parent. Rousseau said that society warps the child and its influence is evil. He wanted to protect the child from society all times. He also had a system of education. From ages 1-4, a child should physically train, and from ages 5-12, they should develop their senses and encounter nature. At ages 13-15, the child should be book instructed based on his curiosity and from a...
