ABSTRACT
Although Rousseau does not explicitly give an upper age limit to the next stage of education, for which he gives Émile’s tutor detailed instructions, yet this limit must be the end of the fourteenth year. This is made clear by his reserving Book IV of Émile for ‘adolescence’ which for him (though not for us today) is assumed not to begin until just about fifteen years of age. This would put the intermediate stage into what is called in the USA, the junior high school level, and, in some counties of the United Kingdom, the junior secondary school stage.
