Émile, the hero of a philosophic romance by Rousseau of the same name, in which the author expounds his views on education, and presents his reasons, with his ideal of what, according to him, a good education is, a theory practically adopted by many would-be educationists with indifferent fruit.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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