 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...  The Works of John Locke - Page 222by John Locke - 1823Full view - About this book
 | Paul Monroe - Education - 1905 - 816 pages
...application has carried us. ... I have men- , tioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely and in train ; not that I think...other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion." Locke as a Representative of Realism. — It must be admitted that this classification of Locke is... | |
 | Education - 1918 - 984 pages
...and the opportunity, not so much to make them mathematicians as to make them reasonable creatures, that having got the way of reasoning, which that study...other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion." The present status of this doctrine seems to be somewhat uncertain. There has doubtless been some reaction... | |
 | Education - 1918 - 924 pages
...and the opportunity, not so much to make them mathematicians as to make them reasonable creatures, that having got the way of reasoning, which that study...other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion." The present status of this doctrine seems to be somewhat uncertain. There has doubtless been some reaction... | |
 | Paul Monroe - Education - 1907 - 476 pages
...application has carried us. ... I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely and in train ; not that I think...men should be deep mathematicians, but that having r\ fbe way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer... | |
 | Frank Pierrepont Graves - Education - 1910 - 360 pages
...opportunity, not so much to make them mathematicians as mathematics. to make them reasonable creatures . . ., that having got the way of reasoning, which that study...other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion." So Locke advises a wide range of sciences, not for the sake of the realistic knowledge obtained, but... | |
 | Frank Pierrepont Graves - Education - 1910 - 358 pages
...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...other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion." So Locke advises a wide range of sciences, not for the sake of the realistic knowledge obtained, but... | |
 | John Locke - Education - 1912 - 292 pages
...plain. '-^ 7. Mathematics. — I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind an habit of reasoning closely and in train ; not that I think...reasoning every single argument should be managed as a math£maiicaL_demojislrafion ; the- connexion and dependence of ideas should be followed, till the... | |
 | Frank Pierrepont Graves - Education - 1912 - 314 pages
...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...other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion." He also ad- So Locke advises a wide range of sciences, not for the of sciences to sake of the realistic... | |
 | John William Jent - Education - 1914 - 104 pages
...and opportunity, not so much to make them mathematicians as to make them reasonable creatures. . . . Not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able... | |
 | Frank Pierrepont Graves - Education - 1915 - 550 pages
...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...other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion." Similarly, he advises a wide range of sciences, "to accustom our minds to all sorts of ideas and the... | |
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