Locke is a British philosopher, the pioneer of empiricism, the first person to comprehensively expound the constitutional democratic thought, and has an important influence on philosophy and politics.

His educational thought "Whiteboard Theory" holds that human mind is like a whiteboard, and ideas and knowledge come from the day after tomorrow, and draws the conclusion that "all people are equal in natural intelligence" and points out that "the reason why human beings are so different is because of education". He advocated abolishing feudal hierarchical education and implementing universal education.

An introduction to this theory

The word "whiteboard" is a free translation of Latin, which means a white wax board that has not been carved with a knife and pencil, because Aristotle, the ancient Greek and Roman, first used it as a metaphor for making a note board with a wax board. Later, it refers to the mind that is not influenced or stimulated by external things. After criticizing the concept of talent, Locke developed the idea of whiteboard and demonstrated the basic principle that knowledge comes from experience.

In his view, the initial mind is like a whiteboard without any marks and ideas. All the ideas and marks come from the acquired experience. It is the basic principle of Locke's epistemology that all knowledge comes from experience, and it is also the basis and starting point of his epistemology.

In his view, the principles and concepts of talents mentioned by talent idealists are actually derived from experience. Locke's theory insists on materialist reflection theory. However, because he doesn't understand the role of social practice in cognition, his reflection theory is still a mechanical and intuitive reflection theory.