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Although Rousseau never meant these academic particulars to be taken actually as a blueprint (he noticed himself as developing and illustrating the essential principles), over the ages there have been makes an attempt to implement them, one being the well-known British free school”, A.S. Neill’s Summerhill (cf.philosophy of education

To quote one instance that’s outstanding in the literature in North America at the least, the US Supreme Court issued a ruling (Wisconsin v. Yoder) in which members of the Amish sect have been allowed to withdraw their youngsters from public colleges after the eighth grade—for, it had been argued, any deeper training would endanger the existence of the group and its tradition.