"A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please." -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The 18th-century Genevan philosopher, writer and composer's Emile is an essay on educational theory that influenced educational reform in post-revolutionary France. It was, to Rousseau, his most important work. "A man seeks to serve, a woman seeks to please," he wrote. "The one needs knowledge, the other taste; utility should be the man's object; the woman speaks to give pleasure. There should be nothing in common but truth."
