Through this research paper in the philosophy of education, I try to clarify the close link between the intellectual and scientific revolution with education as the pivotal link of the Enlightenment, that epistemological turn in Europe after the Renaissance and Reformation, and entering the modern era with means and methods completely different from those that prevailed in the Middle Ages, according to which the mind and its faculties are used in everything, and this is only through education, which needed to be renewed according to the modern perspective seeking not only knowledge, but also the real person behind those artificial formations imposed by human tradition. From Bacon, Descartes to Locke, Rousseau to Kant to Rousseau, there was a continuous intellectual and educational line, and Rousseau is at the heart of this revolution when he draws us the pedagogy of the natural man in "Emile" and the paradoxes of the ends in his education, which he tried hard to solve, whether by assuming the natural state, as opposed to the states of savagery and civilization, or by solving the dilemma of inequality between people with the educational project he proposes in "Emile", the project of creating the human being in man.

Philosophy, education, mind, freedom, child.