John Locke was an educationalist and he believed that children were born neither good nor bad and that they were born as ‘clean slates’. A child’s nature and personality will develop during childhood and adults potentially have a very lasting effect on the child’s personality possibly writing good moral sense as well as faults. He sees a child’s mind as very malleable and a parent can shape it with a lot of persistence. According to Locke children were born without inborn knowledge and their environment determines how successful their learning can be. He focused on the process by which the child learns rather than the subject and he believed that children should receive enjoyment form the education process. Children should be allowed to discovery
