 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 203by J. JOHNSON - 1801Full view - About this book
 | Frank Pierrepont Graves - 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... | |
 | Joseph Kinmont Hart - 1918 - 440 pages
...reasonable creatures. ... 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 go deep into mathematics, but that having got the way of reasoning which that study necessarily brings... | |
 | Charles Clinton Boyer - 1919 - 480 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." His selection of subjects is evidently based on the conviction that the efficiency which the body or... | |
 | Sister Mary Louise Cuff - 1920 - 156 pages
...reasonable creatures. . . . Not that I think it necossary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but s that, having got the way of reasoning, which that...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 pupils) perfect... | |
 | sister Mary Louise Cuff - 1920 - 170 pages
...creatures. ' '244 ' ' 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...mathematicians, but that having got the way of reasoning, every single argument should be managed as a mathematical demonstration, the connection and dependence... | |
 | University of Iowa - 1921 - 876 pages
...connection of ideas, and following them in train. Nothing does this better than mathematics. . . . For, in all sorts of reasoning, every single argument...should be managed as a mathematical demonstration; "Comparing and combini the connection and dependence ideas in the mind, for the pi of ideas should... | |
 | 1923 - 490 pages
...comments on in the well-known Seventh Section of the Conduct, headed 'Mathematics.' He thinks that men having got the way of reasoning, "which that study...other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion." Furthermore, he believes that the study of this science is of infinite use even to grown men5, and... | |
 | 1914 - 658 pages
...191.) matics, where he even uses the term " transfer." He says children should be taught mathematics so that " having got the way of reasoning, which that...to transfer it to other parts of knowledge as they have occasion." But he sees clearly that this transfer may work for evil as well as good : "A metaphysician... | |
 | 1925 - 666 pages
...a man cannot have too much ; it settles in the mind a habit of reasoning closely and in train," so that, "having got the way of reasoning, which that...single argument should be managed as a mathematical demonstration."22 Simple arithmetic may be correlated with geography and astronomy. History is an important... | |
 | Ernest Albert Weinke - 1925 - 452 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 it necessary...mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other T £i parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion." In America and the leading European countries... | |
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