Un cosmopolitisme électif Accomplir l’homme par l’éducation

In the chapter Of « Institution and Education of Children », we can hear the echoes of different passages of the book, which give precise functions to the image of education: the chapter so becomes an essential component for understanding Montaigne’s intention of placing his thought – and his portrait as an intellectual – inside a specific cultural sphere. This article proposes an interpretation of education linking it with other themes: conversation, voyage, and experience.