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This extraordinary book can be read on several levels. Primarily, it is the story of Joseph Jacotot, an exiled French schoolteacher who discovered in 1818 an unconventional teaching method that spread panic throughout the learned community of Europe. <p>Knowing no Flemish, Jacotot found himself able to teach in French to Flemish students who know no French; knowledge, Jacotot concluded, was not necessary to teach, nor explication necessary to learn. The results of this unusual experiment in pedagogy led him to announce that all people were equally intelligent. From this postulate, Jacotot devised a philosophy and a method for what he called "intellectual emancipation"--a method that would allow, for instance, illiterate parents to themselves teach their children how to read. The greater part of the book is devoted to a description and analysis of Jacotot's method, its premises, and perhaps most important its implications for understanding both the learning process and the emancipation that results when that most subtle of hierarchies, intelligence, is overturned.</p> <p>The book, as Kristin Ross argues in her introduction, has profound implications for the ongoing debate about edu

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Author

Jacques Rancière

Publisher

Stanford University Press Stanford University Press

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9780804719698

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Fiction, Memoir, Philosophy

Rating

4.08 / 5 (434 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14