Lockes Influences On Education

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grade system. Children start out in kindergarten or pre-school with a blank slate; we start teaching the very basics as if they know nothing. The more information and experience they gather, the further they move along the grade continuum.

Locke was considered the founder of British empiricist. He believed that all knowledge comes to us through experience. "No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience." Basically, all knowledge has its origin and end in experience, or perception using the senses. He says, “Experience is twofold, sensation and reflection. From both sources we obtain ideas.” Sensation is the perception of external phenomena and reflection is the perception of the operations of the mind itself.

This view of empirical thinking is widely used in schools today, especially in the science fields. Concepts and skills are much easier to learn if you can experience them.
The empirical way of teaching has brought about the use of the ...

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