Questions like this are hard to answer as they are intended as statements of political concepts.
Basically he meant that humans are born as a blank slate, and learn as they grow, but that it takes an effort on the part of the person to actually learn anything or improve their understanding of things.
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The importance of hills in running is that it will improve your leg strength. It takes more effort to run up a hill than it does to run down it.
The abolitionist movement suffered a temporary political defeat through the gag rule. This was an effort to eliminate slavery by making it illegal for any US citizen to own a slave.
No, creating a law is one thing, enforcing it, quite another. The laws were made in an effort to improve the treatment of slaves, but the downside was that they weren't enforced. As a result, the condition of slaves didn't change under the Amelioration Acts.
He had To stop his effort to win support for the league of nations
In what ways did self-serving individuals hurt the Reconstruction effort?