| Criticism - 1869 - 838 pages
...the pure mathematics, both elementary and advanced, are the least directly practical of any sciences. It is only because of their necessity as the foundation...into the circle of practical and useful knowledge. The opponents of classical and humanistic studies are heard occasionally to insist upon the disciplinary... | |
| Noah Porter - Education, Higher - 1870 - 304 pages
...the pure mathematics, both elementary and advanced, are the least directly practical of any sciences. It is only because of their necessity as the foundation...into the circle of practical and useful knowledge. The opponents of classical and humanistic studies are heard occasionally to insist upon the disciplinary... | |
| Noah Porter - Education, Higher - 1870 - 338 pages
...the pure mathematics, both elementary and advanced, are the least directly practical of any sciences. It is only because of their necessity as the foundation of the upplied sciences and arts, that they are so readily admitted into the circle of practical and useful... | |
| Josiah Rhinehart Sypher - History - 1872 - 336 pages
...thoroughly in the preparatory education, so far as they are mainly sciences of observation and of fact. 1 ' Discoursing upon the practical uses of study, the...stands pre-eminent will not be seriously controverted. CHAPTER III. SCHOOL AUTHORITIES. [N each of the States there is a school department possessing some... | |
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