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What does Rousseau think is the training goal of education?
Rousseau proposed that education should cultivate "natural persons" who can maintain human nature, in other words, "free", "self-reliant" and "people who are ready for any occupation". This kind of person is physically strong, mentally developed and capable, and can be competent for any job. No matter how fate changes his position, he can cope. Rousseau suggested to his students that it was not important what he would do in the future. The important thing is to learn how to live and know how to be a man. He said, "When I walked out of my house, I admitted that he was neither a civilian nor a warrior, nor a monk. He is first and foremost a person ... "Obviously, this is put forward in view of the disadvantages of the old education and training objectives. His ideal student, Emil, works with his own hands and earns his own living. He lives independently of others. He is a natural person who doesn't pay for clothes, rent and food, and doesn't rob others of the fruits of their labor. Rousseau's "natural person" is in sharp contrast with the "servant of God" cultivated in feudal society and the parasitic aristocrats who get nothing for nothing. The training goal he put forward not only meets the needs of free competition of capitalism, but also conforms to human nature, which has distinct characteristics of the times.