Virtue is harder to be got, than a Knowledge of the World; and, if lost in a young Man, is seldom recover'd.

John Locke

Some Thoughts Concerning Education

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Formation of character

Author

John Locke

Source

Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Medium

Treatise

Genre

Political literature Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1693 1690s 17th century

Occupation

Philosopher Writer

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Original Citation

Locke, John. Some Thoughts Concerning Education. London: A. and J. Churchill, 1693, sect. 70.

Current Citation

Locke, John. "Some Thoughts Concerning Education." Some Thoughts Concerning Education and of the Conduct of the Understanding, edited by Ruth W. Grant and Nathan Tarcov. Hackett Publishing Company, 1996, sect. 70.

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Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished?... Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience.

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Locke, John. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. London: Thomas Basset, 1690, bk. 2, ch. 1.

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