Jean Jacques Rousseau 
Emile 
or Concerning Education

‘Émile, Or Treatise on Education’ is a treatise on the nature of education and on the nature of man written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who considered it to be the ‘best and most important of all my writings’. During the French Revolution, Émile served as the inspiration for what became a new national system of education. This version contains dozens of linked footnotes by Jules Steeg.