Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Natural Education Thought and Its Enlightenment to China’s Ideological and Political Education

Abstract

Rousseau’s naturalistic educational thought takes cultivating natural persons as its educational goal, adheres to educational principles such as the law of nature, the principle of utility, and the law of freedom, and selects different educational contents and methods based on the laws of physical and mental development and phased characteristics of children at different age stages. This thought not only provides guidance for cultivating natural persons but also offers profound enlightenment for the practice of modern ideological and political education. When analyzing Rousseau's natural education thought, rational reference and critical inheritance will help promote the further development of the theory of ideological and political education in China.