![]() A dampened brown paper would run across the board leaving behind a mere trail of a hand-written lesson that was already learned the hard way, yesterday. ![]() I remember back in the day when the teacher had us students approach the black slate in the front of the room to erase the dusty white chalk yet it took a few times to delete the stormy grey residue. I can’t bare to see another selfie of someone whom doesn’t look up or reach out or write back to simply say, thank you or hello today. Oh how I miss the days of not being on social media ( the book of face) before my first cup of coffee kissed my curious lips in the morning at my own time and pace. I’d sit up late at night by candle light reading a battered book that smelt like an old Inn from London, peacefully turning each yellowed page after I’d burn some sage to communicate as the radio crackled and hummed in the kitchen. What a blessing to have lived for more than half my life without a cellphone or a computer. I’d like to journey back to the time we would sit and reflect and write poetry or perhaps a letter to a friend, a family member or a lover.Īm I the only one whom still grasps onto my quill pen like an old friend in hopes to reconnect again and again? John Locke’s theory still haunts me to this day.īeing a writer upon this digital planet allows me to freely time travel ( without the worry of nasty emissions). I believe I was first introduced to this theory while studying Child Psychology and Development in college ( 1 of the 3 NY State colleges I have attended and day dreamed in over the years). Tabula rasa theory is to be understood as Abiogn (2001) contended in his study, as an empirical theory based on empirical observation of the development of human knowledge, which Locke attributed to the child’s frame of mind, before ideas are imprinted on it, by the reaction of the senses to the external world of objects. He claimed that, on the contrary, the mind is a tabula rasa (blank slate) until experience begins to “write” on it.” Locke argued against the belief that human beings are born with certain ideas already in their minds. “John Locke: A seventeenth-century English philosopher. I reckon I must grant such gratitude to Sir John Locke. Tabula rasa ( Latin term for ‘clean slate’) has always tattooed my memory over time as I continue to scribe my analytical thoughts and observations upon metamorphic rock. As we turn to the crisp, fresh page of our calendar books I’d like to wish everyone a Happy New Year. ![]()
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