premise: Countering Locke 's image of an all-powerful adult tutor , eighteenth-century French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau conceived of the child as a noble savage 'untamed but naturally good , with an innate plan for orderly , healthy growth .
hypothesis: Countering Locke 's image of an all-powerful juvenile tutor , eighteenth-century French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau conceived of the child as a noble savage 'untamed but naturally good , with an innate plan for orderly , healthy growth .