The Enlightenment

The Enlightenment era is one of the most important periods. The principal features of the time are the spirit of criticism, the faith in reason, the trust in science and the desire of teaching.

They talked about different authors:

Voltaire: was a French author, one of the most important figures of the century and one of the main thinkers of the time. His major work was The Treaty of Tolerance (1763) and The Philosophical Dictionary (1764).

Locke: one of the most important thinkers of his time. He proposes education as a game that should be easy, solid, and directed to the feelings through a direct knowledge of the purpose.

Rousseau: considered a great Enlightenment thinker. Jean-Jacques believed in natural education, which means the education should promote and encourage qualities such as happiness, spontaneity and inquisitiveness associated with childhood.

Luzuriaga: one of the Spanish historians of education that contributed to the development of the investigation, and he was considered one of the representatives of the New School’s movement. Education is that function of society by which it is a question of developing or facilitating the plan of man’s life and introducing him to the social and cultural world.

In this period, Enlightenment, have many thinkers that contribute to education.