 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 connection of ideas and following them in train. Nothing does this better than mathematics, which therefore I think should...  Easy Introduction to Mathematics - Page xxviby Charles Butler - 1814Full view - About this book
 | Education - 1882 - 1112 pages
...does this better than mathematics,1 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 ; for though we all call ourselves so, because we are bom to it if we please, yet we may truly say,... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1882 - 1112 pages
...does this better than mathematics,1 which therefore I think should be taught all those who have the cutive, and the forcible essays of a distinguished advocate of this institution at great length, p ; for though we all call ourselves so, because we are boni to it if we please, yet we may truly say,... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - Authors, English - 1887 - 572 pages
...does this better than mathematics, which, therefore, I think, should be taught all those who have the the triumph of his. fancy, overpowered our feelings with the tide of passion, or enlightened our re ; for though we all call ourselves so, because we are born to it if we please, yet we may truly say,... | |
 | John Locke - 1894 - 604 pages
...this better than mailigmatics, which therefore ;<'.c" I think should be taught all those~ who have the time and opportunity, not so much to make them mathematicians as to make,ffiem reasonable creatures ; for though we all call ourselves so because we are born to it if... | |
 | Association of Catholic Colleges of the United States - 1899 - 702 pages
...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 mathematicians as to make them reasonable creatures." — A Treatise on the Conduct of the Human Understanding. Boston, 1839, p. 25. In our own day this... | |
 | English essays - 1900 - 524 pages
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 | Thiselton Mark - Education - 1899 - 164 pages
...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 mathematicians as to make them reasonable creatures "—another indication that Locke's idea of education had become far less utilitarian by the time of... | |
 | Education - 1918 - 886 pages
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 | Education - 1918 - 984 pages
...Nothing does this better than mathematics, which, therefore, I think should be taught to all who have the time and opportunity, not so much to make them mathematicians, as to make them reasonable creatures. ... In all sorts of reasoning, every simple argument should be managed as a mathematical demonstration."... | |
 | Simon Somerville Laurie - Education - 1905 - 280 pages
...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 mathematicians as to make them reasonable creatures; for though we all call ourselves so, because we are born to it if we please, yet we may truly say,... | |
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