Joseph Jacotot
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French teacher and educational philosopher
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Joseph Jacotot was a French teacher and educational philosopher, creator of the method of "intellectual emancipation." Life Jacotot was born at Dijon on 4 March 1770. He was educated at the university of Dijon, where in his nineteenth year he was made a professor of Latin, after which he studied law, became a lawyer, and at the same time devoted a large amount of his attention to mathematics.
