The Quarantine Tapes: Quotation Shorts - Michel de Montaigne
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The French essayist and philosopher, Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) pioneered the essay style of writing principal philosophical work, Essay’s, in which he used self-portrayal as a mirror of humanity.
In his essay On the Education of Children, Montaigne advocated for an individualized learning environment where children were encouraged to learn through experience and to question and alter the ideas they learn in books, making these ideas their own.
This notion was new at the time and differed largely from what was then the contemporary method of education; having children read the classics and accept them as truth without learning to make their own judgments or expand on ideas.
For more information about Montaigne:
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/montaigne/
The New Yorker Magazine, Me, Myself and I; What Made Michel de Montaigne the First Modern Man, by Jane Kramer
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/09/07/me-myself-and-i
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