Tje writer is to treat with Rousseau's "Emile", under the title, borrowed from Dr. W. Boyd, Reader Emeritus of Glasgo University, Scotland, Author of: "History of Western Education"; "The Educational Theory of Jean Jacques Rousseau"; "From Locke to Montessori", etc. Dr. Boyd's recent work is "Emile for To-day", published in 1956, reprinted in 1958, including a new abridged translation of "Emile" and a critical commentary which enables us to look afresh at some of educational problems to-day. As the writer has been very much interested in the commentary, he is to review this on the one hand and to state the result of his own study concerning the original text on the other hand. The fact that the idean of 'natural education' in "Emile" were complemented by the ideas of 'national education' in the other writings, is one of the present writer's, in one of present writer's special interests.
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