Rousseau's contrast between savage and peasant is a contrast between free reasoning and obedient habit; Jiang uses it to argue that children should be allowed to be explorers rather than controlled subjects.
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Rousseau's contrast between savage and peasant is a contrast between free reasoning and obedient habit; Jiang uses it to argue that children should be allowed to be explorers rather than controlled subjects.
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"...of men who are constantly engaged in bodily activity peasants and savages okay there are these peasants who work the farm there's savages who..."
"keen senses but for great subtlety of mind savages are really smart peasants are really dull why generally speaking there is nothing duller than..."
"helps to explore the other the savage is an explorer the savage is a problem solver the savage is free and independent to make..."
"...stray. It is hard to speak of what it was, that savage forest, dense and difficult, which even in recall renews my fear. So..."
"...he doesn't know how to proceed. It's a long period of savage forest, dense and difficult, that makes him question everything, okay? He's in..."
"...stray. It is hard to speak of what it was. That savage forest. Dense and difficult. Which even in recall renews my fear. So..."
"...he doesn't know how to proceed. It's a long period, a savage forest, dense and difficult, that makes him question everything. Okay? He's in..."
"...war with Rome. So it's not that Rome was vicious and savage in destroying Carthage. It was like the Carthaginians had a curse. They..."
"...has his eyes drank in that plunder, keepsake of his own savage grief. Flaring up in fury, terrible in his rage, he cries, decked..."
"...once at the gods' flowing feast, the captains clashed in the savage war of wards, while Agamemnon, lord of armies, rejoiced at heart that..."
"...Hector calling his Trojans on, his war cries crashing around me. Savage cries of his Trojans sweeping the whole plain. Victors bring the Argive..."
"...the law could you be free. Otherwise, we'd all just be savages. Okay? That's the conception of liberty. Now, the last question, then, is..."
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