But Rosseau's ideas about education still with us and highly influential. I think he went to his grave thinking that David Hume was trying to have him killed. Or something like that.
Indeed, the Western tradition of state-run public schooling derives from Rousseau's reimagining of Plato.
Interestingly, state-funded schooling began in the US specifically as an anti-Catholic measure by Gaelophobic Northeastern Congregationalists.