Who was Joseph Jacotot ?
8 May 2006
Joseph Jacotot was an exiled French schoolteacher who discovered in 1818 an unconventional teaching method that spread panic throughout the learned community of Europe.
Knowing no Flemish, Jacotot found himself able to teach in French to Flemish students from Leuven who know no French; knowledge, Jacotot concluded, was not necessary to teach, nor explication necessary to learn.
The results of this unusual experiment in pedagogy led him to announce that all people were equally intelligent. From this postulate, Jacotot devised a philosophy and a method for what he called "intellectual emancipation"—a method that would allow, for instance, illiterate parents to themselves teach their children how to read.
Find some basic biographical informations on Joseph Jacotot :
In French :
a short bio here
read him here
In English :
here
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