ABSTRACT
Charles Fourier believes that education ought to be communal. The home, asserts Fourier, is unsuitable for educating young children. The child must be brought up as a member of the larger social unit of the phalange. Fourier is against the family on educational grounds as well. J. J. Rousseau had advocated in his Emile that “the child’s natural teachers are his parents, and there is no real education outside the family”. Fourier believes that the child’s best and natural teacher is one slightly older, and not the parent or teacher. The system consisted in setting children to teach children, and it was being developed to educate children on a large and organized scale. Fourier appreciates that important thinkers had emphasized the need to improve the relationship between the teachers and pupils. The idea of part-time teaching by highly qualified expert’s intent on instructing their particular speciality is most interesting and valuable.
