The Ignorant Schoolmaster
BOOK
The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation; Le Maître ignorant: Cinq leçons sur l'émancipation intellectuelle
The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation is a 1987 book by philosopher Jacques Rancière on the role of the teacher and individual towards individual liberation. Rancière uses the example of Joseph Jacotot, a French teacher in the late 18th century who taught in Belgium without knowledge of their language (Flemish), to explain the role of liberation after Marxism.