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Who are the better educators of children, the urban rich or the country poor, and why?
Why is nature a better teacher than book learning?
Rousseau believes a woman should be trained to be subservient to her husband in such a way that she ends up running the household. How does this come about?
What is wrong with society, and how does it damage a young person?
Why should the student avoid searching for a mate for as long as possible?
The Savoyard priest believes people can know God through what human faculty? How does this contrast with standard church teachings?
What about travel books makes it hard to learn from them about other countries, and what is the remedy?
Rousseau declares that the people may choose among three basic types of governance. Describe briefly each, and name the one that most closely resembles the representative democracies common to the Western world. EXTRA CREDIT: Describe how modern democracies resemble that one type of governance.
How does the general will protect humans and their freedom?



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