 I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely and in train; not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that, having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings...  Posthumous Works - Page 30by John Locke - 1706 - 336 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Locke - Education - 1912 - 292 pages
...should be deep mathematicians, but that, having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion. For in all sorts of reasoning every single argument should be managed as a math£maiicaL_demojislr... | |
 | John William Jent - Education - 1914 - 104 pages
...men should be deep mathematicians, but having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts -of knowledge as they shall have occasion. "The business of education is not, as I think, to make them (the young) perfect... | |
 | Robert Édouard Moritz - Mathematics - 1914 - 436 pages
...should be deep mathematicians, but that, having got the way of reasoning which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge, as they shall have occasion. For in all sorts of reasoning, every single argument should be managed as a mathematical... | |
 | Frank Pierrepont Graves - Education - 1915 - 574 pages
...make them reasonable creatures, that having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it ,to other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion." Similarly, he advises a wide range of sciences, "to accustom our minds to. all... | |
 | Frank Pierrepont Graves - Education - 1915 - 550 pages
...make them reasonable creatures, that having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion." Similarly, he advises a wide range of sciences, "to accustom our minds to all... | |
 | Joseph Kinmont Hart - Education - 1918 - 446 pages
...should go deep into mathematics, but that having got the way of reasoning which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion." It will be seen from these quotations that though the mind rather definitely... | |
 | Charles Clinton Boyer - Education - 1919 - 480 pages
...them reasonable creatures, . . . that having got the way of reasoning which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion." His selection of subjects is evidently based on the conviction that the efficiency... | |
 | Sister Mary Louise Cuff - 1920 - 156 pages
...should be deep mathematicians, but s that, having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion."104 Again, "the business of education ... is not, as I think, to make them (the... | |
 | John Locke - Education - 1922 - 294 pages
...should be deep mathematicians, but that, having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion. For in all sorts of reasoning every single argument should be managed as a mathematical... | |
 | Psychology - 1923 - 490 pages
...headed 'Mathematics.' He thinks that men having got the way of reasoning, "which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion." Furthermore, he believes that the study of this science is of infinite use even... | |
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