Noble Savage

After reading several selections regarding noble savages, I still do not have a clear understanding of what a "noble savage" is. According to the entry, Erroneous Identification of Rousseau with the Noble Savage , Rousseau believed that everyone was born with good potentials and civilization along with envy and self consciousness makes man bad. His belief was that men were only made good through education and a constituted society.Rousseau had one belief that society needs today and that was belief in equality.