"Ideas, especially those belonging to principles, not born with children- if we attentively, consider new-born children, we shall have little reason to think that they bring many ideas into the world with them: for bating, perhaps, some faint ideas of hunger, thirst, warmth, and some pains which they may have felt in the womb, there is not the least appearance of any settled ideas at all in them.. "
I agree with Locke that children don't have many ideas when they are born. The idea that they can feel pain, thirst, and hunger are enwoven into every human being, as being the most basic needs of any person. The only way people can learn new ideas is being introduced to them in the real world and Locke is dead on about what he says.
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i happen to disagree with u. i think that when a baby is born they think a lot. they are curious they explore the world they wonder what this is and what that does u no what i mean.
Experience is the best way to learn. We are born with certain survival instincts such as hunger, thirst, and pain, but it is the gift of enlightenment that makes us of the most unique life forms. As we get older we seem to experience more and more, and each conflict, lesson, or event is another experience under our belt. So i would have to agree that the only way to learn new ideas is from simply living.
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