Research Progress on John Locke's Thoughts of Educational Philosophy

For a long time, Locke's educational philosophy has been shadowed by his political philosophies and philosophical epistemology. Until the 20th century, western scholars began to turn their attention to his educational philosophy, in which contains the secrets of his political freedom from ideal into reality. Since then, many well-known educators found wisely in succession the internal relation between Locke's major education works: Some Thoughts Concerning Education, Of the Conduct of the Understanding and his philosophical masterpiece An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. This discovery provides an important foundation for the further study and facilitates him as a qualified education philosopher pioneer. This paper means to the advances in John Locke's Educational Philosophy in the 21th Century.