 The two most influential pedagogical works in 18th-century Europe were John Locke's "Some Thoughts Concerning Education" (1693) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "".In "Original Stories" and her other works on education, Wollstonecraft responds to these two works and counters with her own pedagogical theory.Wollstonecraft follows Locke in emphasising the role of the senses in learning; for her, as Myers writes, "ideally, children should learn not from direct teaching but from living examples apprehended through the senses."