...leans toward it in the exposition of his educational theory. He says (Conduct of the Understanding) "Would you have a man reason well, you must use him...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...

...ISAAC. Private Study of Mathematics: Conflict of Studies and other Essays (London, 1873), p. 82. 423. Would you have a man reason well, you must use him...betimes; exercise his mind in observing the connection between ideas, and following them in train. Nothing does this better than mathematics, which therefore,...

...in fashioning and forming his hand, or outward parts, to these motions. Just so it is in the mind ; would you have a man reason well, you must use him...observing the connection of ideas, and following them in 1 Conduct of the Understanding, 19. [84] train. Nothing does this better than mathematics ; which therefore...

...discovering whether we are thinking and reasoning or merely fancying and dreaming. TODHUNTER, ISAAC. Would you have a man reason well, you must use him...betimes; exercise his mind in observing the connection between ideas, and following them in train. Nothing does this better than mathematics, which, therefore,...

...following them in train." As to the / stu ' means of effecting this mental discipline, Locke holds: "Nothing 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 mathejmaticians as to make them reasonable creatures,...

...This can only be accomplished by repeating the action or mental power desired until it is acquired. "Would you have a man reason well, you must use him...his mind in observing the connection of ideas, and follow them in train. . . . We are born to be, if we please, rational creatures ; but it is use and...

...reasoning, Locke makes admissions which might justify the charge of formal training. Thus he declares : l " Would you have a man reason well, you must use him...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."...

...inventive, masterful, even creative. "Would you have a man reason well, you must use him (make him used) to it betimes, exercise his mind in observing the connection of ideas and following them in train." For the purposes of this habit-forming exercise of the mind nothing is better than mathematics, "which...

...and following them in train." For the purposes of this habit-forming exercise of the mind nothing is 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....

...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...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...