How long does it take to read Emile or Education?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Barbara Foxley, William Harold Wayne
Emile or Education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Barbara Foxley, William Harold Wayne takes about 8 hours 22 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 22 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1762. 456 pages, about 125,400 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 56 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 22 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 14 minutes |
The page count is the median across 182 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Rousseau wrote about the difficulty of being a good individual within an inherently corrupting collectivity: society. Emile deals specifically with education, and outlines a system which would allow for human goodness. He uses the fictional story of Emile and his tutor to outline his ideas. The book was banned and publicly burned on its publication, but became a European bestseller and provided a basis for new education systems.
Subjects: Education, Collections, Philosophy, Essays, Fiction, Nonfiction
