Mathetics or didactics?

NATURE OR NURTURE?
It all started with the appearance of the wild boy of Aveyron (1799). He was the first feral child being studied serious.

Structured learning, provided by adults, following a plan, could help this wild boy, was the thesis of Itard and Sequin. Their approach was an example for Maria Montessori, later.

Others, like Rousseau, saw it totally different: nature educates, and people can hardly add something to it.

The following part of a movie, made by François Truffaut, shows the moment that the wild boy was caught, in the woods of the Aveyron.