... that's why we find quasi-fictional elements in the story. Rousseau suggests that education is not all a matter of theory, but largely a practical business "malgr( tout d'(crits qui n'ont, dit-on, pour but que l'utilit( publique, la premi(re de toutes les utilit(s, qui est l'art de former des homes, est encore oubli(e" and to be practical Rousseau says you have to describe an individual story. Rousseau moreover defended himself against the accusation that his special method is not applicable to everyone, everywhere and that it is of limited value. However, there is some truth in the accusation. By stacking facts in his form, i.e. by providing Emile with all the characteristics he has given him, it will allow the general theory to be expanded under formable conditions. But this doesn't mean the educational principles that Rousseau lays down in the book are not adaptable to other particular cases one ...

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