John Locke citáty

„Veškeré učení má být pro děti hrou a sportem.“

—  John Locke

„Lidé nemohou být ke svému blahu nuceni, proto musí být ponecháni vlastnímu svědomí.“

—  John Locke

„Svoboda tvé pěsti končí na špičce mého nosu“

—  John Locke, kniha Two Treatises of Government

Two Treatises of Government (Dvě pojednání o vládě)

„Úspěch v boji znamená nepřicházet k soupeři tak, jak chce on s vámi bojovat.“

—  John Locke

„Všichni jsme omylní a ochotně se dopouštíme chyb, když nás žene prospěch nebo vášeň.“

—  John Locke

„Dětem je třeba učinit život tak zábavný a příjemný, jak jen to jde.“

—  John Locke

„Četba zásobuje naši mysl pouze materiálem vědomostí. Teprve myšlením se zmocňujeme toho, co jsme přečetli.“

—  John Locke

„Nejsou žádné vrozené ideje.“

—  John Locke

Zdroj: Slovník myslitelů. Velké postavy západního myšlení, str. 272, ISBN 80-7260-002-8

„Síla našeho přesvědčení není konečně důkazem jeho správnosti.“

—  John Locke

„Nepřehlížejte dětské chyby, které přerůstají v chyby mužů. Nehovte nikdy dětským vrtochům.“

—  John Locke

„Zvědavost by měla být u dětí stejně opatrná, jako potlačování jiných chutí.“

—  John Locke

„Přednost zlozvyku vůči ctnosti, znamená nesprávný úsudek.“

—  John Locke

„Vzpoura je právo lidí.“

—  John Locke

„Naše úloha zde není znát všechny věci, ale ty, které se týkají našeho jednání.“

—  John Locke

„The Indians, whom we call barbarous, observe much more decency and civility in their discourses and conversation“

—  John Locke, kniha Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 145
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
Kontext: The Indians, whom we call barbarous, observe much more decency and civility in their discourses and conversation, giving one another a fair silent hearing till they have quite done; and then answering them calmly, and without noise or passion. And if it be not so in this civiliz'd part of the world, we must impute it to a neglect in education, which has not yet reform'd this antient piece of barbarity amongst us.

„Revolt is the right of the people“

—  John Locke

„Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.“

—  John Locke

As quoted in "Hand Book : Caution and Counsels" in The Common School Journal Vol. 5, No. 24 (15 December 1843) by Horace Mann, p. 371
Kontext: This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in; those who have read of everything, are thought to understand everything too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment.

„He that will have his son have a respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.“

—  John Locke, kniha Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 71; Note: Here Locke quotes Juvenal
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
Kontext: He that will have his son have a respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son. Maxima debetur pueris reverentia [The greatest respect is owed to the children].

„None of the things they learn, should ever be“

—  John Locke, kniha Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 73
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
Kontext: None of the things they learn, should ever be made a burthen to them, or impos's on them as a task. Whatever is so proposed, presently becomes irksome; the mind takes an aversion to it, though before it were a thing of delight or indifferency. Let a child but be ordered to whip his top at a certain time every day, whether he has or has not a mind to it; let this be but requir'd of him as a duty, wherein he must spend so many hours morning and afternoon, and see whether he will not soon be weary of any play at this rate. Is it not so with grown men?