John Locke believed that the mind of a child is like a blank slate (tabula rasa) that is filled through sensory experience. He saw education as crucial for moral development and social integration by shaping individuals according to their temperament and skills in a rigorous but non-brutal manner. Locke felt education should produce sound-minded and bodied individuals to serve their country, with content depending on one's station in life.
John Locke believed that the mind of a child is like a blank slate (tabula rasa) that is filled through sensory experience. He saw education as crucial for moral development and social integration by shaping individuals according to their temperament and skills in a rigorous but non-brutal manner. Locke felt education should produce sound-minded and bodied individuals to serve their country, with content depending on one's station in life.
John Locke believed that the mind of a child is like a blank slate (tabula rasa) that is filled through sensory experience. He saw education as crucial for moral development and social integration by shaping individuals according to their temperament and skills in a rigorous but non-brutal manner. Locke felt education should produce sound-minded and bodied individuals to serve their country, with content depending on one's station in life.
JOHN LOCKE VIEWS ON EDUCATION John Locke’s views in education are based on his empirical theory of human knowledge in his famous work “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding” VIEWS ON EDUCATION
When born, the mind of a the
child is like a blank slate – “TABULA RASA” to be filled later with the data derived from sensory experience. EDUCATION
• Logically ensues that education plays a crucial role in moral
development and social integration of any human being. • Education means shaping according to each individual’s temperament and skills, exercised without brutality, but in a rigorous and pragmatic manner. Purpose of Education according to John Locke • Locke believed that the purpose of education was to produce an individual with a sound mind and a sound body so as to better serve his country. • Locke thought that the content of education ought to depend upon one’s station in life. • The common man only required moral social and vocational knowledge • Acquire knowledge about the world through the senses - learning by doing and by interacting with the environment
• Simple ideas become more complex through comparison,
reflection and generalization - the inductive method
• Questioned the long traditional view that knowledge came
exclusively from literary sources, particularly the Greek and Latin classics • Opposed the "divine right of kings" theory which held that the monarch had the right to be an unquestioned and absolute ruler over his subjects
• Political order should be based upon a contract between the
people and the government
• People should be educated to govern themselves
intelligently and responsibly • For John Locke education is learners interacting with concrete experience, comparing and reflecting on the same concrete experience. The learner is an active not a passive agent of his/her own learning.
• From the social dimension, education is seeing citizens
participate actively and intelligently in establishing their government and in choosing who will govern them from among themselves because they are convinced that no one person is destined to be ruler forever. Thank you for listening. Prepared by: Capila, Marisol Daclan, Apple Joyce Dimaculangan, Hazel Ann Lacdao, Joyce Mairenz Rosaria, Sairah Trinidad, Noreen