卢梭在《爱弥尔》中主张儿童的教育应顺应自然,以儿童为本位。他极力主张:在儿童的理解力尚未发达之前,要让儿童远离社会,回归自然,到自然环境中去看、去听,不接受世俗的影响。他说“大自然希望儿童在成人以前就要象儿童的样子。如果我们打乱了这个次序,我们就会造成一些早熟的果实,它们长得既不丰满也不甜美,而且很快就会腐烂:我们将造成一些年纪轻轻的博士和老态龙钟的 Rousseau argued in ”Emily“ that children’s education should conform to nature and take children as the standard. He strongly advocated: Children’s understanding is not yet developed before, let children away from society, return to nature, to see in the natural environment, to listen, do not accept the secular influence. He said, ”Nature wants children to look like children until they are adults, and if we upset that order, we would create some precocious fruit that would neither look plentiful nor sweet and would soon Decay: We’ll make some young PhDs and old-fashioned ones