![]() In the later eighteen-twenties Ralph Waldo Emerson read, and was very significantly influenced by, a work by a French philosopher named Victor Cousin.Ī key section of Cousin's work reads as follows: To this day through his essays, lectures, poems, and philosophical writings. RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882) was, in his time, the leading voice of intellectual culture in the United States. ![]() That society can build on and to some extent modify. In our own times the social and psychological sciences tend to take the view that Human BeingsĪre 'formed' socially and psychologically by nature as well as by nurture and that there are inherited traits Insisted that the teaching of reading, writing, and arithmetic be gradual and cumulative. He believed that a sound education began in early childhood and (1697), Locke recommended practical learning to prepare people to manage their social, economic,Īnd political affairs efficiently. In his Some Thoughts Concerning Education Intuition or that the human mind is invested with innate Locke definitely did not believe in powers of To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE.Įssay Concerning Human Understanding : Hernnstein & Murray, 1994, p.311 ![]() How comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundlessįancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper void of all characters, withoutĪny ideas. ![]()
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