What is meant by the claim that the human mind starts as a 'Tabula Rasa'?

These days everybody has a masters in the curriculum but honestly I rather listen to a farmer...I can learn far more with one !

A masters degree in what subject?

...yoghurt thesis... with a yoghurt validity...mostly all the subjects which are not in hard sciences and do not necessitate maths...is that good enough for you or do you have an enchanted view on Bologna also, eh ?
(...not referring to myself I drop off half way with good results...it made me sick to see how the system works...should have chosen science instead of Humanistic´s while I was a kid...it is somewhat less corrupted and less mediocre...)

I got an advanced degree in penmanship.

I got an advanced degree in penmanship.

...it makes sense you are an aesthetic at heart, are n´t you ?

Oh yes--if I understand you correctly.

Obviously we begin with a cognitive "tabula raza" (blank slate) since we have not learned anything yet--if we are talking about an actual/absolute beginning. But this does not mean that we are not already equipped with a complex set of genetically constituted predispositions to learn things that other species cannot. Chomsky has argued, as I recall, that we are innately predisposed to learn and use language, espectially its structural characteristics (grammar).

All animal species learn to communicate; no less than humans. The advantage for humans is our ability to remember history through the written word.

Yes; all animals communicate less than humans, and our difference with them is in our use of forms which allow us to consider our existence objectively...

..and imaginatively (as in our artistic renditions of our existence.)