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John Locke
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English philosopher and physician whose empiricist account of the mind as a tabula rasa, filled by sensation and reflection rather than innate ideas, made education foundational to character and knowledge alike. His Some Thoughts Concerning Education was the most influential English-language educational treatise for over a century and shaped Rousseau and nearly every writer on education after him.
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BirthplaceWrington, Somerset, England 1 Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionIn Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693) and An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, argued the mind begins as a tabula rasa shaped by experience, grounding education in habituation, reason and a broad practical curriculum rather than rote memorization. 1 Notable WorkSome Thoughts Concerning Education (1693) 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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1. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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Locke's monumental An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689) is one of the first great defenses of modern empiricism and concerns itself with determining the limits of human understanding in respect to a wide spectrum of topics.
1. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford University, Metaphysics Research LabIn Category: ThinkersView the Source An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, In Four Books, By John Locke.
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After completing studies at Westminster at age 20, he was admitted to Christ Church, Oxford, in the autumn of 1652.
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