Emile, ou de l'éducation(Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
1. A Father Should Be the Tutor of His Own Household Just as a mother is truly the one who should nourish a child, a father is truly the one who should be the child's tutor. Parents must agree on their parenting styles and respective roles. A young child should be passed from the mother's hand to the father's. Although a father's knowledge may be inferior to the world's most competent teacher, it is better for a discerning father to educate his child. (Mobile e-book: 92p) When considering the father's role while a mother carries a child for ten months, gives birth, breastfeeds, and raises the child, I believe, as Rousseau suggests in the book, that the father should become the tutor of his own family. A household is created by the father and his wife, and rather than entrusting it to other professionals, the goal should be for the father to learn more and become a proper teacher for his child. Educational institutions can handle a child's schooling, but wh...