It Has Been Said That Rousseau's Ideas on the Nature

question 92

Multiple Choice

It has been said that Rousseau's ideas on the nature of education were incorporated into the twentieth-century writings of Jean Piaget.Both Rousseau and Piaget believed that

• A) teachers should capitalize on the natural curiosity of children and allow them to discover and construct their own knowledge.
• B) children should be forced to memorize by rote the information that adults in the larger society deem necessary.
• C) children are passive subjects that require great structure in education.
• D) education should not be based upon reason until the teen years.

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