Hello and welcome to classical stuff.

You should know a podcast about old books, ancient world, and whatever we feel like talking about.

My name is Thomas Magby.

I'm joined as always by Mr. A.J. Hanenberg.

Howdy.

And Mr. Graham Donaldson.

Hello. And, you know, I said some things that we cover in our podcast. What I didn't mention

is that we are huge fans of talking about parenting tips as well. And so today we are going

to talk about A.J.'s favorite expert on how to raise children well, Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Now, personally, I'm very excited. You're not actually

talking about Amelie or Emily or however it's pronounced. Although I should, I should have switched.

I should have talked about that book instead. What a way to start out 30 seconds in saying

you should have done another book. We haven't even gotten into the one you prepared for today.

Well, fair enough. And that's been today's episode. Not just kidding. This is, I'm doing his most influential book, so this is probably the one I should do, but I am interested in his child

rearing stuff. So I am talking about Jean-Jacques Rousseau, which sounds French, but he's from Geneva.

Where's Geneva? Switzerland. Switzerland? Yeah, so he's... They see French there. Fair. Yeah,

okay. They use Swiss francs, that's true. Nailing it so far. So he's... French there. Fair. Yeah, okay. They use Swiss francs.

That's true.

Nailing it so far.

So he also wrote some other books about child rearing, which is what Thomas was referencing

in his introduction, and we will maybe get to that.

So, Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Send your kid to a orphanage, isn't that his advice?

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