• Tabula Rasa is Latin for 'clean sheet of paper'

• Theory that everyone's mind is born with a blank slate at birth

• Idea's are developed from experiences

• Two types of experiences

  • External 'sensation': Interaction with, human beings, everything around us, the color and number of objects and motions

  • Internal 'reflection': Acts of the mind such as, knowing, believing, remembering, and doubting

• Family and teachers need to provide valuable experiences and the optimum environment for the child

• Everyone has simple ideas and are gradually developed more in depth by experiences and teachings

• Ideas were either

  
  

  • Simple: Idea that is centered around one element

    • Example: The color red

  • Complex: Idea that is centered around several simple ideas

    • Example: An apple. This has the color red, the shape of a circle, and how it feels smooth

• We don't have powers of in tuition or that the human mind is invested with innate conceptions

• Early Education is important

• Practical learning prepares people for their social life, economic life,and political affairs

• Reading, writing, and math should all be taught gradual, and cumulative

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