Twitter is an astounding platform for information, but it's a total blank slate - which means it's an astounding platform for disinformation, too.

Having a blank slate is sometimes as daunting as it is exciting.

Life is just a blank slate, what matters most is what you write on it

I am a blank slate-therefore I can create anything I want.

Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.

Because much of the content of education is not cognitively natural, the process of mastering it may not always be easy and pleasant, notwithstanding the mantra that learning is fun. Children may be innately motivated to make friends, acquire status, hone motor skills, and explore the physical world, but they are not necessarily motivated to adapt their cognitive faculties to unnatural tasks like formal mathematics. A family, peer group, and culture that ascribe high status to school achievement may be needed to give a child the motive to persevere toward effortful feats of learning whose rewards are apparent only over the long term.