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A 4 page essay that contrasts and compares the educational experiences of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1728) and Frederick Douglass (1817?-1895), two articulate, well-educated men who both wrote autobiographies that describe their early educational experience. The writer argues that while these two highly intelligent men accomplished a similar task in writing their autobiographies, their early educational experience could not have been more different. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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men accomplished a similar task in writing their autobiographies, their early educational experience could not have been more different. Rousseau begins his autobiography by describing the relationship of his
father and mother, how they were deeply in love, and how his mother died while giving birth to him. Rousseaus father turned to his young son for consolation and he
grew up in a household where he was deeply loved and received a great deal of attention. Rousseau writes that every night, after supper, his father would read to him
from his mothers small collection of romances. "My fathers design was only to improve me in reading," records Rousseau who indicates that his father felt that such a practice would
engender in his young son a love for reading, which it did. By the age of seven, Rousseau writes that his mothers library was "quite exhausted" and, together
with his father, he began exploring other words, such as Le Seurs history of the Church and Empire, Plutarchs Lives, Ovids Metamorphoses, and numerous others. Rousseau indicates that he was
particularly fond of works by ancient Greek and Roman scholars -- "Plutarch presently became my greatest favorite." Rousseau pictures himself as a tiny tyrant who loving family tolerated his posing
as a Greek or Roman soldier. At the age of ten, Rousseau idyllic life with his father ended as his father become involved in a quarrel that resulted in
his voluntary banishment from Geneva in 1722. Rousseaus care then became the responsibility of his uncle. Living in the country with his uncle, Rousseau received his first formal education,
along with his uncles children. However, this period did not last long as he soon left home to make his own way in the world. As this suggests, Rousseau was,
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