The age of Education presented to mankind a great number of outstanding thinkers and ingenious writers. Russo, Montesquieu, Kant, Swift, Diderot, Voltaire, Hobbes, Novikov, Leibniz and many other famous persons appeared in an age of Education. So it in a century and what else it introduced in blossoming of a civilization?
Destruction of the old world
Age of Education is called the 18th century in which the new foundations which changed process of mankind were created. During this period the human right on the independent order as the life and independence of the power of strangers was recognized. Also rules of law were put in a basis of the relations between the personality, society and state whereas functions of the state were limited to protection of these rights. Also in the 18th century the educators developed the concept of division of the power which protected the population from a government arbitrariness.
The system of "controls and counterbalances" developed in an age of Education formed later the basis of the American Constitution.
Educational activity seriously struck an old regime, having called into question adequacy and infallibility of bases on which there was feudal society. Thanks to educators, the Middle Ages began to be got rid gradually, and the mankind received the new horizons for the progress. The basic concepts of educational exercises represented achievement of general welfare, the natural right, natural religion and the public contract. France which presented to the world of brilliant philosophers, scientists, musicians and artists became the center of the movement of educators.
Achievements of an age of Education
In the 18th century the first scientific encyclopedia in which her authors described the basic concepts of policy, economy, art, engineering, natural sciences and physical and mathematical sciences was written. Actively national cultures and languages and also philosophical searches, a huge impact on which the German literature had, began to develop. In the Pacific Ocean the geographical discoveries which allowed to begin systematic study and development of this huge region were made. The educational activity constructed on the general basic principles in each country developed taking into account national, political, social and economic conditions – that is, unequally. The huge step forward was taken by botany, biology, mathematics and chemistry, the first theory about evolution was also put forward. The art culture of the age of Enlightenment united a set of various style forms. To the forefront there were literature, music and theater. Instrumental music rose by the highest step, and the opera began to combine singing, music and difficult drama actions.