as observed by children

"But all that are born into the world being surrounded with bodies that perpetually and diversely afect them, variety of ideas whether care to be taken or no, are imprinted on the minds of children...Light and colours are busy at hand everywhere the eye is but open; but sounds and some tangible qualities fail not to solicit their proper senses, and force entrance to the mind; but yet I think it will be granted easily that if a child were kept in a place where he never saw any other but black and white till he were a man, he would have no more ideas of scarlet or green..." (Locke, pg61)

From what I take of this, Locke is stating that as a child we are observant to sound, and attracted towards light and color. Some things we tend to focus more on, and some of which we observe and tend to not pay attention to. Locke discusses that we subconsciously manage to imprint both in our minds. What we first see and familiarize ourselves with as a child is what we are subjected to know. For example, Locke says that "if a child were kept in a place where he never saw any other but black and white till he were a man, he would have no more ideas of scarlet or green" . This means that even though at birth that child may have seen reds and blues, the mind is immature, inexperienced, and underdeveloped. Therefore, if the child grew up from then on only knowing of black and white, then it will no longer remember the other colors because as the brain developes, it familiarizes with only black and white through constant repetition.