In the post-Darwinian approach, the 'blank slate' is synonymous with the modern denial of human nature. This article is a call for the restoration of the first layer in the portrait of the blank slate through Quentin Skinner's contextual-intentionality method to challenge this approach. Rather than denying human nature, John Locke shifted the Platonic inquiry from 'What is the nature of knowledge?' to 'How the mind acquires knowledge?'--offering a modern understanding of human nature to modern Exodus of perceptual prisoners from the Platonic cave. Thus, the blank slate was a response to the doctrine of Plato's "anamnesis" (recollection a priori knowledge) to transform ignorance from divine to secular. In this early pentimento, I identify a 'secular ignorance' within the blank slate--a distortion painted broadly by post-Darwinian thinkers. Consequently, the 'blank slate' as an apparatus for secularizing ignorance can revise the Latin root of the curriculum--"Currere", the running of the course--from a "traditional hurdle race", where each learner competes to reach predetermined and common ends (a divine vision), into a modern relay race, where each learner passes the torch of ignorance onto the next (a secular vision).