 Just so it is in the mind ; would you have a man reason well, you must use him to it betimes, exercise his mind in observing the connection of ideas and following them in train. Nothing does this better than mathematics, which therefore I think should...  Easy Introduction to Mathematics - Σελίδα xxviτων Charles Butler - 1814Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey, Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff - 1851 - 496 σελίδες
...without. It is on this account that Locke says he would have every body learn something of mathematics, " not so much to make them mathematicians, as to make them reasonable creatures." * So, likewise, an eminent philosopher of our own day conEssay on the Conduct of the Human Understanding,... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - 1852 - 348 σελίδες
...Understanding, that " nothing teaches a man to reason so well as Mathematics, which should be taught to all those who have time and opportunity, not so much...mathematicians, as to make them reasonable creatures." This may well be said of Algebra. In the study of Algebra, and in fact of every branch of mathematics,... | |
 | Sarah Porter - 1852 - 286 σελίδες
...their mental faculties, the time thus employed in the education of youth would be well bestowed, " not so much to make them mathematicians as to make them reasonable creatures."* To assist in rescuing arithmetic from the degraded rank it at present occupies among intellectual pursuits... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - 1853 - 370 σελίδες
...Understanding, " Nothing teaches a man to reason so well as Mathematics, which should be taught to all those who have time and opportunity, not so much...make them mathematicians, as to make them reasonable crea"fcllTGS " BENJAMIN GREENLEAF. BUAWOIUJ, January 23, 1852. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE STEREOTYPE EDITION.... | |
 | 1853 - 394 σελίδες
...same time to exercise the mental faculties of students ; and, as she says in the words of Locke, " not so much to make them mathematicians as to make them reasonable creatures." To this end the author has avoided giving any rule without first having shown upon what principles... | |
 | John Locke - 1854 - 560 σελίδες
...does this better than mathematics, which therefore I think should be tauglft all those who have the time and opportunity, not so much to make them mathematicians as to make them reasonable creatures ; for though we all call ourselves so because we are born to it if we please, yet we may truly say,... | |
 | Thomas Fisher - 1854 - 156 σελίδες
...does this better than mathematics, which, therefore, I think should be taught all those who have the time and opportunity, not so much to make them mathematicians, as to make them reasonable creatures." [Locke, on the Conduct of the Human Understanding, Introduction, Sec. 6. " It is to bo observed that... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 σελίδες
...ideas, and following them in train. Nothing does this better than Mathematics; which, therefore, I think should be taught all those who have time and...make them Mathematicians, as to make them reasonable creatures.—John Locke. 186. to the investigation of Mathematical truth, will come to all other questions... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 σελίδες
...ideas, and following them in train. Nothing does this better than Mathematics; which, therefore, I think should be taught all those who have time and...make them Mathematicians, as to make them reasonable creatures.—John Locke. 186. He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of... | |
 | James W. Kavanagh - 1857 - 298 σελίδες
...are indispensably necessary in the promotion of mental culture. Hence Locke says — " Mathematics should be taught all those who have time and opportunity...mathematicians as to make them reasonable creatures."! And while the pure mathematics thus aid in the forma* Study of Mathematics, by De Morgan. t Conduct... | |
| |
