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By God, That Man's A Philosopher!

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Portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Maurice Quentin de La Tour, 1753. New philosophical debate: Which is worse, having your book burned or your head curb stomped? Rousseau may one day have an answer for that! A much more wrestling-adjacent than pure wrestling content post today. I spend a fair amount of time on the train for my commute, and I like to pass the time by reading. There's a great app called Hoopla that lets me access my home library in the US and borrow stuff from their online catalog. It's fantastic and I love it. Yeah libraries! Anyway, I am currently reading "Emile," aka "On Education," by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. It's a treatise on education (obviously) and has had a major influence on the way students are taught even to this day. It is divided into five sections, and the first three are pretty solid (with some weird, understandable because it's ye olden times, stuff thrown in). The fourth section would be fine if not for the inclusion...