Posted by JWmHarmon on December 21, 2001 at 13:06:42:In Reply to: Re: childs simplicity...and ability to learn. posted by Manuel Oliveros on December 21, 2001 at 10:47:22:
See John Locke and Jean Jaques Rousseau and the "tabula rasa" theory of learning. Tabula rasa translates as "blank slate." The mind is a blank slate to be written on by experiences.
There is a parallel in architectural drawing. Our drafting paper (or computer screen) is a blank slate until we conjure up from experience what it is we can draw. Our knowledge of architecture is a blank slate until we experience a building. Once we have seen a building we can not completely erase it from our memory. Having once seen the Eiffel Tower, The Millenium Bridge, the World Trade Center, or Fallingwater we can never erase it from our memory.
Until we have seen a new building or a drawing of it, we are like a little child discovering something for the first time. As adults we have a context in which to file these new buildings, unlike the child who is building his/her own mental filing system.
As long as there are children and adults who seek to discover new things there is hope for the world.
For more about John Locke and tabula rasa visit this site.
http://www.mncdd.org/parallels/three/2.html
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