 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
 | Association of Catholic Colleges of the United States - 1899 - 702 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." — A Treatise on the Conduct of the Human Understanding. Boston, 1839, p. 25. In our own day this... | |
 | Thiselton Mark - 1899 - 164 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 "—another indication that Locke's idea of education had become far less utilitarian by the time of... | |
 | 1918 - 984 σελίδες
...Nothing does this better than mathematics, which, therefore, I think should be taught to all who have the time and opportunity, not so much to make them mathematicians, as to make them reasonable creatures. ... In all sorts of reasoning, every simple argument should be managed as a mathematical demonstration."... | |
 | Simon Somerville Laurie - 1905 - 280 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; for though we all call ourselves so, because we are born to it if we please, yet we may truly say,... | |
 | 1916 - 1006 σελίδες
...Nothing does this better than mathematics, which, therefore, I think should be taught to all who have the time and opportunity, not so much to make them mathematicians, as to make them reasonable creatures," and in another place, "I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning... | |
 | 1918 - 922 σελίδες
...Nothing does this better than mathematics, which, therefore, I think should be taught to all who have the time and opportunity, not so much to make them mathematicians, as to make them reasonable creatures. ... In all sorts of reasoning, every simple argument should be managed as a mathematical demonstration."... | |
 | 1916 - 916 σελίδες
...Nothing does this better than mathematics, which, therefore, I think should be taught to all who have the time and opportunity, not so much to make them mathematicians, as to make them reasonable crea^ tures," and in another place, "I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a... | |
 | Paul Monroe - 1905 - 814 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 ereatures ; for though we call ourselves so, because we are born to it if we please, yet we may truly... | |
 | Frank Pierrepont Graves - 1910 - 358 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 . . ., that having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they... | |
 | Charles Hughes Johnston - 1912 - 594 σελίδες
...Nothing does this better than mathematics, which therefore should be taught all those who have the time and opportunity, not so much to make them mathematicians as to make them reasonable creatures. On the above grounds the schools mentioned as giving secondary education at the close of the sixteenth... | |
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