Random Talk on Education is an educational masterpiece by John Locke, a great British philosopher and enlightenment thinker in the17th century. This book, like Locke's other works, is a treasure of British and American traditional culture, which has deeply influenced later scholars and shaped the thoughts of generations of ordinary people. It is still a must-read book for educators and parents in Europe, America and even the world.

The book Random Talk on Education is Locke's outline on how to educate this blank mind. He believes that education is the most important part of a person, or more fundamentally, the mind is just an "empty cupboard" at the beginning. He also said: "I think I would say that 90% of the people we meet are good or bad or their ability depends on their education."

Locke also argues that "any trivial impression we receive in infancy will have a considerable and lasting impact on our future." He believes that the associations formed when a person is young are more important than those formed later, because they are the root of self-they are the first impressions left on the whiteboard.

Whiteboard theory is an important philosophical theory put forward by Locke, which has an important influence on psychology.

Random Talk on Education is mainly divided into two aspects: family education and study education, in which family education covers all aspects, including physical health and spiritual education, and spiritual education accounts for a large space, aiming at emphasizing the influence of family education on children.

Although some viewpoints cannot be fully agreed, there are still many references in many aspects.

Excerpts from Random Talk on Education:

People's manners and abilities are so different because the role of education is more important than anything else.

When the desire is not recognized by reason, we should have the ability to restrain the desire that reason does not allow.

Any punishment for a child is useless if it doesn't make him feel ashamed of doing something wrong, but only makes him feel physical pain.

Children should be treated as rational animals.

The higher the virtue, the easier it is for people to achieve other achievements.

Virtue is a kind of spiritual wealth, and what makes it shine is a good education.

Children like freedom. We should guide them to do what suits them, and don't let them feel bound by anything.

A child who is slightly injured by a beating and fall should not be pitied for it, but should be allowed to start over.

The function or purpose of a good education is to make the people we associate with feel relaxed and satisfied, nothing else.

The acquisition of knowledge should start from the source, not indirectly.

Reading is neither his job nor his task.

The intensity of memory should be attributed to the psychological quality of happiness, not the habitual improvement caused by any training.