The IB Learner Profile: A singular capacity for invigorating campus life Inquirers. They develop their natural curiosity. They acquire the skills necessary to conduct inquiry and research and show independence in learning. They actively enjoy learning and this love of learning will be sustained throughout their lives.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau painted by Maurice Quentin de La Tour. Image courtesy of the Joconde Art Database. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 1778) believed that man is naturally good and that vice and error are alien to him. This creates a conflict between ânatureâ and âartificeâ in attitudes to society, education and religion. According to Rousseau, nature is manâs state before being influenced by outside forces.
He admired her courage, her optimism, her impudent defiance of fate; she had a little philosophy of her own, ingenuous and practical. View in context A large faith he might seem to have in what is called natural optimism, the beauty and benignity of nature, if let alone, in her mechanical round of changes with man and beast and flower.