Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s man-syntonic didactics

The author analyses the main ideas of the didactic system of Jean Jacques Rousseau, the progressive pedagogue and humanistic writer of the 18th century, who criticized the practice of upbringing children from privileged societies of that period and developed the system of upbringing a new man in the spirit of his theory of a natural man. The author argues that the main conceptual provisions of Jean Jacques Rousseau’s man-syntonic didactics are based on universal didactic principles, correct selection of the content of teaching and upbringing and methods of natural education which en masse ensure students’ close interrelation with life and their active pragmatist outlook which are formed on the basis of the transition from sensuous upbringing to the discovery of ideas.