MALIGAYANG ARAW

JOHN LOCKE
(1632-1704)

The Empiricist Educator

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