A Natural Liberty And Enjoy The Liberty

The whole political philosophy of John Locke contains two aspects: how to a construct ideal political society and how to make individuals live up to the demand of this society through education. However in his major politics work Two Treatises of Government, there is no such reference as cultivating qualified citizens through education. In the meantime, his work on educational thought Some Thoughts Concerning Education just sets forth educational theory without referring to political science.On this basis, Two Treatises of Government and Some Thoughts Concerning Education are used as the study materials for analysis. It is achieved from the two books that the deep relationship between Locke’s political and educational thoughts lies in his citizenship education theory: his political thoughts discuss relative political theories about constructing ideal civil society, and his educational thoughts expounds how to make citizens who match their political society through education.Citizens in law are different from those in citizenship education. In Locke’s thoughts, born with freedom is the right of individuals as citizens in legal sense. If individuals want to really enjoy this freedom, they need to become qualified citizens of citizenship education through education. This process that makes individuals grow from people with citizenship to qualified citizens is a course of citizenship education.The above course of citizenship education can be concluded as a process from gifted freedom to acquired freedom. In this process, if individuals want to enter society and become real “citizens”, they need to experience tough rational reflection,get some citizenship education, and go through a course where they first acquire reason and then are controlled by reason and law. In the meantime, real citizens not only means they are restrained by reason and law but also means their rights including freedom right can be protected better in political society. The detailed educational methods contain the cultivation of virtue, upbringing, intelligence, knowledge, health and so on.