Laws are irrevocable rules that have been set to the maintenance of a civilization. In our current society laws are the negative answers that can’t be change, they denied humanity of certain desires. Humans’ mind naturally empowers the will to overcome any denial action or answer. Laws, orders, and rules are the irreversible “no” that a child must understand of which Roseau speaks “Let him know only that he is weak and you are strong … let all your refusals be irrevocable; let no importunity shake you; let “no,” once pronounced, be a wall of bronze against which the child will have to exhaust his strength at most five or six times in order to abandon any further attempts to overturn it”(Rousseau, p.19). Therefore it is vital to educate humanity
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Nature establishes limits on humans as living organism; such as death, every living organism will come to and end. Society establishes limits through laws; impose by the people on power. Making the human kind free only of freedom, as Rousseau said “there is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom”(Rousseau, p.25). Nature makes us men; society keeps us dependent children. “Doubtless we ought to do only what we want; but we ought to want only what society wants us to do” (Rousseau, p. 25). That is the “no” that can’t be changed, one accepts it and continues to move as far as it is …show more content…
Education teaches children that with hard work and dedication one can obtain certain desires. The experiment Rousseau did on the lazy child that was intended for a military career, is an example of the “no” that can be changed. Denying the child of the cake of his desire, while giving it to those who ran and won it, Rousseau planted on the child the will to obtain it as a prize for himself. When a student doesn’t obtain the desired grade on an exam, he pushes himself to work harder in order to get it. That is a lesson all must learn, opportunities are given to those who deserve it, in all spheres of life. In order to get a better grade one must study harder; in order to obtain the job one desires, one must have worked hard to achieve academic excellence. Opportunities are a cycle that follows effort, one works hard in order to get desirable ends; one does not work hard enough there comes the “no”. Challenges allow competition and the opportunity to change the “no”; laws, orders, and rules are the “no” that allow no
Nature establishes limits on humans as living organism; such as death, every living organism will come to and end. Society establishes limits through laws; impose by the people on power. Making the human kind free only of freedom, as Rousseau said “there is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom”(Rousseau, p.25). Nature makes us men; society keeps us dependent children. “Doubtless we ought to do only what we want; but we ought to want only what society wants us to do” (Rousseau, p. 25). That is the “no” that can’t be changed, one accepts it and continues to move as far as it is …show more content…
Education teaches children that with hard work and dedication one can obtain certain desires. The experiment Rousseau did on the lazy child that was intended for a military career, is an example of the “no” that can be changed. Denying the child of the cake of his desire, while giving it to those who ran and won it, Rousseau planted on the child the will to obtain it as a prize for himself. When a student doesn’t obtain the desired grade on an exam, he pushes himself to work harder in order to get it. That is a lesson all must learn, opportunities are given to those who deserve it, in all spheres of life. In order to get a better grade one must study harder; in order to obtain the job one desires, one must have worked hard to achieve academic excellence. Opportunities are a cycle that follows effort, one works hard in order to get desirable ends; one does not work hard enough there comes the “no”. Challenges allow competition and the opportunity to change the “no”; laws, orders, and rules are the “no” that allow no