 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
 | Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) - 1919 - 562 pages
...methods during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. 2. ' Mathematics . . . should be taught . . . not so much to make them mathematicians as to make them reasonable creatures.' Discuss this diction with reference to (/<) mathematics, (A) humanistic subjects. 3. State and criticize... | |
 | sister Mary Louise Cuff - 1920 - 170 pages
...Nothing 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 as to make them reasonable creatures. . . . Not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that, having got... | |
 | Sister Mary Louise Cuff - 1920 - 156 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."244 "I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely,... | |
 | Ernest Albert Weinke - 1925 - 452 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 call ourselves so, because we are born to it if we please, yet we may truly say nature... | |
 | Joseph Kinmont Hart - Adult education - 1927 - 368 pages
...following them in train. . . . Therefore, I think mathematics should be taught to all those who have the time 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 go deep into mathematics, but that having got... | |
 | Edward Aloysius Pace, Thomas Edward Shields - Catholic schools - 1921 - 704 pages
...Nothing 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 as to make them reasonable creatures. . . . Not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that, having got... | |
 | Edward Aloysius Pace, Thomas Edward Shields - Catholic schools - 1922 - 648 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."244 "I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely,... | |
 | John Locke - Empiricism - 1992 - 424 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 bom to it, if we please; yet we may truly say,... | |
 | C.C. Gaither, Alma E Cavazos-Gaither - Mathematics - 1998 - 506 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; for though we all call ourselves so, because we are born to it if we please, yet we may truly say that... | |
 | John Mason, Sue Johnston-Wilder - Electronic books - 2004 - 356 pages
...possessions. I... 1 ... 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 . . . (Locke, 1693; quoted in Monroe, 1909, pp. 518-19) Locke seemed not to notice that as with any... | |
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