Rousseau, an enlightenment thinker, philosopher, educator, writer, democratic critic, pioneer of romantic literary school, and one of the representatives of the Enlightenment in France18th century. His major works include On the Origin and Basis of Human Inequality, On Social Contract, Emile, Confessions and so on. In his educational novel Emile, he clearly put forward the naturalistic educational thought and established the children-oriented educational view.

Rousseau, an enlightenment thinker, expressed a naturalistic view of education in Emile, arguing that children's emotional education precedes rational education, and education should conform to nature, so that people's nature can be free from social prejudice and bad habits, thus realizing natural development. This shows that Rousseau advocates that children's emotional education precedes rational education, and attaches importance to sensibility while emphasizing rationality.