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" 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 connexion of ideas, and following them in train. Nothing does this better than mathematics, which, therefore, I think should... "
Philosophical beauties selected from the works of John Locke - Page 20
by John Locke - 1802
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The British Journal of Psychology, Volume 13

Psychology - 1923 - 490 pages
...have ever so much vigour and activity, suppleness and address naturally, yet nobody expects this from him unless he has been used to it, and has employed time and pain in fashioning and forming his hand or outward parts to these motions" (my italics)1. He was quite...
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Catholic Educational Review, Volume 20

Edward Aloysius Pace, Thomas Edward Shields - Catholic schools - 1922 - 648 pages
...have ever so much vigour and activity, suppleness and address naturally, yet nobody expects this from him unless he has been used to it, and has employed...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...
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Catholic Educational Review, Volume 19

Edward Aloysius Pace, Thomas Edward Shields - Catholic schools - 1921 - 704 pages
...intimates it, but the following quotations from his Conduct of the Understanding are in harmony with it: "Would you have a man reason well, you must use him...betimes; exercise his mind in observing the connection of ideas and following them in train. Nothing does this better than mathematics, which therefore should...
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La conducta del entendimiento y otros ensayos póstumos

John Locke - Empiricism - 1992 - 424 pages
...so much vi220 gour and activity, suppleness and address na- II turally, yet nobody expects this from him, unless he has been used to it, and has employed...to it betimes, exercise his mind in observing the connexion of ideas, and following them in train. Nothing does this better than mathematics, which,...
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John Locke and the Ethics of Belief

Nicholas Wolterstorff - Philosophy - 1996 - 276 pages
...have never so much vigor and activity, suppleness and address, naturally, yet nobody expects this from him unless he has been used to it, and has employed...betimes; exercise his mind in observing the connection of ideas, and following them in train. . . . we are born to be, if we please, rational creatures, but...
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Mathematically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations

C.C. Gaither, Alma E Cavazos-Gaither - Mathematics - 1998 - 506 pages
...to phenomena of the real world. Quoted in Stanley Gudder A Mathematical Journey (p. 36) Locke, John Would you have a man reason well, you must use him to it betimes; exercise his mind observing the connection between ideas, and following them in train. Nothing does this better than...
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Ideas, Mental Faculties, and Method: The Logic of Ideas of Descartes and ...

Paul Schuurman - History - 2004 - 218 pages
...Arithmatica & Algebra detegimus quae in inveniendi arte requirituntur.' Cf. Locke, 'Conduct', par, 17 (§6): 'would you have a man reason well you must use him to it betimes exercise his minde in observeing the connection of Ideas and following them in train. Noe thing does this better...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: And a Treatise on the Conduct of ...

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1800 - 540 pages
...have ever so much vigour and activity, suppleness and address naturally, yet nobody expects this from him, unless he has been used to it, and has employed...to it betimes, exercise his mind in observing the connexion of ideas, and following them in train. Nothing does this better than mathematics, which,...
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Some Thoughts Concerning Education

John Locke - Education - 1988 - 328 pages
...have ever so much vigour and activity, suppleness and address naturally, yet nobody expects this from him unless he has been used to it, and has employed...parts to these motions. Just so it is in the mind. (C. of U. § 6. ) From this it follows that "the business of education is not as I think to make the...
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Some Thoughts Concerning Education

John Locke - Education - 1886 - 320 pages
...have ever so much vigour and activity, suppleness and address naturally, yet nobody expects this from him unless he has been used to it, and has employed...parts to these motions. Just so it is in the mind." (C. of U. § 6.) From this it follows that "the business of education is not as I think to make the...
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